Verena Huber-Dyson

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Verena Huber-Dyson

Verena Huber-Dyson (* May 6, 1923 in Naples as Verena Esther Huber ; † March 12, 2016 in Bellingham , Washington ) was a Swiss mathematician.

Her Swiss father was Bühler AG's representative for the Middle East and she attended the German School in Athens with the Abitur in 1940. After that, the family had to return to Switzerland because of the Second World War. Since she did not have a Swiss Matura, Verena Huber could not study at the ETH Zurich, but was admitted to the University of Zurich after she submitted a recommendation from her school principal in Athens, completed a scientific qualification thesis and completed her budget apprenticeship in evening classes. She received her doctorate in 1947 under Andreas Speiser in Zurich (dissertation: A duality as a classification principle in the theory of finite groups ). She went to the USA to see Reinhold Baer at the University of Illinois. In 1948 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study and during this time also taught at Goucher College in Baltimore. In addition to group theory, she also dealt with mathematical logic. After marrying Freeman Dyson, she went to California and taught at San Jose State University, while also joining Alfred Tarski's group in Berkeley. There followed years of traveling at various universities (so she was from 1968 to 1971 Assistant Professor and 1972/73 Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago) before becoming Assistant Professor in 1973, Associate Professor in 1977 and Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of 1981 Calgary where she retired in 1988. She then lived in Bellingham (Washington).

She dealt with Gödel's sentences and word problems in groups and decidability issues in groups.

She was married to the mathematician Hans-Georg Haefeli from 1942 until the divorce in 1948 and had a daughter with him (* 1945). From 1950 until the divorce in 1958 she was married to Freeman Dyson and had with him the children Esther Dyson and George Dyson .

She was visiting professor at various Australian universities such as Monash University .

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Web links

  • Verena Huber-Dyson: Gödel in a nutshell. In: Edge.org. May 13, 2006 (English, with biography and photo).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Riedt man : paths of women: Mathematicians in Switzerland. (pdf, 155 kB) In: mathch / 100. Swiss Mathematical Society 1910–2010. Edited by Bruno Colbois, Christine Riedtmann, Volker Schroeder. European Mathematical Society, 2010, archived from the original on August 3, 2018 ; accessed on February 28, 2020 (English). . The paper uses memories from Huber-Dyson in a speech at the ICM in 1994
  2. ↑ Verena Huber-Dyson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ^ Verena Huber-Dyson - Life Story. Moles Farewell Tributes, accessed February 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber-Dyson, Verena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Verena Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2016
Place of death Bellingham (Washington)