Ulla Margarete Dinger (born 1955) is a Swedish mathematician specializing in
mathematical analysis
Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...
. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...
.
Dinger completed her doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in 1989. Her dissertation, ''On the ball problem and the Laguerre maximal operators'', was jointly supervised by Christer Borell (of the
Borell–Brascamp–Lieb inequality In mathematics, the Borell–Brascamp–Lieb inequality is an integral inequality due to many different mathematicians but named after Christer Borell, Herm Jan Brascamp and Elliott Lieb.
The result was proved for ''p'' > 0 by Henst ...
) and Peter Sjögren.
She is a senior lecturer in mathematics at the
Chalmers University of Technology
Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international level ...
, where she teaches
real analysis
In mathematics, the branch of real analysis studies the behavior of real numbers, sequences and series of real numbers, and real functions. Some particular properties of real-valued sequences and functions that real analysis studies include converg ...
and heads the program for the Preparatory Year in Natural Sciences.
References
1955 births
Living people
Swedish mathematicians
Women mathematicians
University of Gothenburg alumni
Chalmers University of Technology faculty
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