Cecilia warrior
Cecilia Krieger (born April 9, 1894 in Jaslo , Galicia , then Austria-Hungary , now Poland , † August 17, 1974 in Ontario ) was a Canadian mathematician.
Krieger began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna in 1919 , but emigrated to Toronto with her family in 1920 . At the university there, she completed her master's degree in mathematics in 1925 and received her doctorate in 1930 under WJ Webber (On the summability of trigonometric series with localized parameters). This made her the first woman to do a PhD in mathematics in Canada (and the third woman ever to do a PhD in Canada). She was a lecturer at the University of Toronto and from 1942 assistant professor. She retired in 1962, but continued to teach until 1968 and then at Upper Canada College in Toronto until her death.
She translated a topology textbook by Waclaw Sierpinski into English.
The Warrior Nelson Prize for Women in Mathematics in Canada is named after her and Evelyn Nelson .
In 1953 she married Zygmund Dunaij.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Cecilia Krieger. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
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| SURNAME | Warrior, Cecilia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jaslo , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1974 |
| Place of death | Ontario |