Cecilia Krieger
Mathematician, Academic
1894 – 1974
Who was Cecilia Krieger?
Cypra Cecilia Krieger-Dunaij was an Austro-Hungarian-born mathematician of Jewish ancestry who lived and worked in Canada. Krieger was the third person to earn a Ph.D in mathematics from a university in Canada, in 1930 as well as the third woman to have been awarded a doctorate in any discipline in Canada. Krieger is well known for having translated two works of Wacław Sierpiński in general topology. The Krieger-Nelson Prize, awarded annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society since 1995 for outstanding research by a female mathematician, is named in honour of Krieger and Evelyn Nelson.
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- Born
- Apr 9, 1894
Jasło - Also known as
- Cypra Cecilia Krieger Dunaij
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Toronto
- University of Vienna
- Died
- Aug 17, 1974
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on July 23, 2013
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