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Frances Alice Rogers OBE is an emeritus professor of mathematics at King's College London. Her research concerns supermanifolds and mathematical physics; she is the author of the book Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications (World Scientific, 2007).
Rogers studied mathematics in New Hall, Cambridge, in the 1960s. Her mother had also studied mathematics at Cambridge in the 1930s and later became a wartime code-breaker at Bletchley Park. Rogers earned her Ph.D. in 1981 from Imperial College London. She has been a member of the British government's Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, is the education secretary of the London Mathematical Society (LMS), and represents the LMS on the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK.
In 2016 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services to Mathematics Education and Higher Education".