Lynn Batten

Lynn Margaret Batten (1948^[1] – 28 July 2022^[2][3]) was a Canadian-Australian mathematician^[4] known for her books about finite geometry and cryptography, and for her research on the classification of malware.^[5]

Education and career

Batten earned her Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1977. Her dissertation was D-Partition Geometries.^[6]

Formerly the Associate Dean for Academic and Industrial Research at the University of Manitoba, she moved to Deakin University, Australia in 2000,^[2] where she held the Deakin Chair in Mathematics, and directed the Information Security Group.^[7]

She was involved in the founding of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) from 2001.^[2]

Books

• Combinatorics of Finite Geometries. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 31 March 1986. ISBN 978-0-521-31857-0.^[8]
• With Albrecht Beutelspacher: The Theory of Finite Linear Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 9 April 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-11418-9.^[9]
• Public Key Cryptography. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons. 22 January 2013. ISBN 978-1-118-31712-9.^[10]