Daina Taimina

Daina Taimina

Daina Taimina ( Russian Дайна Тайминя ; born August 19, 1954 in Riga ) is a Soviet - Latvian - American mathematician and university professor .

Life

After attending the Riga High School , Taimina studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Latvia in Riga, graduating summa cum laude in 1977.

In 1990 Taimina defended her doctoral thesis on the Behavior of Different Types of Automata and Turing Machines on Infinite Words , supervised by Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds , at the Institute for Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in Minsk . In 1992 she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Latvia . She taught at the University of Latvia and at the Institute for Teacher Education in Riga. 1992–1996 she worked as a scientific editor for the publishing houses Zvaigzne and Mācību grāmata .

In 1997 Taimina became an Associate Professor at Cornell University in Ithaka , New York . When her on a geometry - Workshop 1997 William Thurston Paper hyperbolic surfaces stood out, she decided to establish more solid models, and began such areas to crochet . This became known so that she and her husband David W. Henderson presented their work at a Cornell workshop. She has now crocheted more than 100 geometric models.

Prices

Taimina received the Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year in 2009 and the Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America for her book Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes with William Thurston's foreword .

Web links

Commons : Daina Taimina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• zbMATH : Taimiņa, Daina
• Literature by and about Daina Taimina in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Тайминя, Дайна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taimina's Internet Site (accessed December 18, 2019).
2. ↑ David W. Henderson, Daina Taimiða: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane . In: Mathematical Intelligencer . tape 23 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 17–28 ( [1] [accessed December 18, 2019]).
3. ↑ Satori: CELS no matemātikas uz mākslu. Dainas Taimiņas lekcija e-text + textiles rezidencē (accessed December 18, 2019).
4. ↑ Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina (accessed December 18, 2019).
5. ↑ Daina Taimina: Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes . AK Peters , 2009, ISBN 978-1-56881-452-0 .
6. ↑ Andy Bloxham: Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes wins oddest book title award . In: The Telegraph . March 26, 2010 ( [2] [accessed December 18, 2019]).
7. ^ Mathematical Association of America: 2012 Euler Winner Announced - 2012 Euler Book Prize Winners Announced (accessed December 18, 2019).