Nira (Richter) Dyn ( he, נירה דין) is an Israeli mathematician who studied

geometric modeling __NOTOC__ Geometric modeling is a branch of applied mathematics and computational geometry that studies methods and algorithms for the mathematical description of shapes. The shapes studied in geometric modeling are mostly two- or three-dimensi ...

, subdivision surfaces, approximation theory, and image compression. She is a professor emeritus of

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemati ...

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

, and has been called a "pioneer and leading researcher in the subdivision community".

Education and career

Dyn earned a bachelor's degree from the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

in 1965. She went on to graduate study at the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

, where she earned a master's degree in 1967 and completed her doctorate in 1970. Her dissertation, ''Optimal and Minimum Norm Approximations to Linear Functionals in Hilbert Spaces, and their application to Numerical Integration'', was supervised by Philip Rabinowitz. After postdoctoral research in the Institute of Fundamental Studies at the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants Undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate degrees, including Doctorate, do ...

, she joined the Tel Aviv faculty in 1972, and retired in 2010.

Recognition

Dyn was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, in the section on numerical analysis and scientific computing.

Books

Dyn is the author of: *''Stochastic Models in Biology'' (as Nira Richter-Dyn, with Narendra S. Goel, Academic Press, 1974) *''Approximation of Set-valued Functions: Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators'' (with Elza Farkhi and Alona Mokhov, Imperial College Press, 2014)

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