Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC (8 June 1945 – 17 June 2022) was a Polish-Canadian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, a professor of mathematics at the

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, and the holder of the

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in Geometric Analysis.Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis
retrieved 3 December 2010.

Contributions

Her research is in geometric

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defined o ...

, and is unusual in combining asymptotic analysis with the theory of Banach spaces and infinite-dimensional

convex bodies In mathematics, a convex body in n-dimensional Euclidean space \R^n is a compact convex set with non-empty interior. A convex body K is called symmetric if it is centrally symmetric with respect to the origin; that is to say, a point x lies in ...

. It formed a key component of Fields medalist

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' solution to

Stefan Banach Stefan Banach ( ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an origina ...

's homogeneous space problem, posed in 1932.Tomczak-Jaegermann wins 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize

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, accessed 3 December 2010. Her 1989 monograph on Banach–Mazur distances is also highly cited.

Education and career

Tomczak-Jaegermann earned her M.S. in 1968 from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...

, and her Ph.D. from the same university in 1974, under the supervision of

Aleksander Pełczyński Aleksander "Olek" Pełczyński (2 July 1932, Tarnopol, Poland – 20 December 2012, Wrocław) was a Polish mathematician who worked in functional analysis. Career Pełczyński studied mathematics from 1950 to 1956 at the University of Warsaw an ...

. She remained on the faculty at the University of Warsaw from 1975 until 1983, when she moved to Alberta.

Recognition

In 1996, Tomczak-Jaegermann was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1999 she won the

Krieger–Nelson Prize The Krieger–Nelson Prize is presented by the Canadian Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding woman in mathematics. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named after Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson, both known for their contri ...

for an outstanding female Canadian mathematician. In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. She was the winner of the 2006

CRM-Fields-PIMS prize The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is the premier Canadian research prize in the mathematical sciences. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences and is given annually by three Canadian mathematics instit ...

for exceptional research in mathematics.

Death

Tomczak-Jaegermann died on 17 June 2022 at the age 77 in

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, Canada.Zmarła Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (1945–2022)
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