Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
Tomczak-Jaegermann in 2003
Born(1945-06-08)8 June 1945
Paris, France
Died17 June 2022(2022-06-17) (aged 77)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Known forBanach Space Theory[1]
AwardsKrieger–Nelson Prize (1999)
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize (2006)
Academic work
DisciplineMathematician

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC (8 June 1945 – 17 June 2022) was a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis.[2]

Contributions

Her research is in geometric functional analysis,[2] and is unusual in combining asymptotic analysis with the theory of Banach spaces and infinite-dimensional convex bodies. It formed a key component of Fields medalist Timothy Gowers' solution to Stefan Banach's homogeneous space problem, posed in 1932.[3] Her 1989 monograph on Banach–Mazur distances is also highly cited.[4]

Education and career

Tomczak-Jaegermann earned her M.S. in 1968 from the University of Warsaw,[3] and her Ph.D. from the same university in 1974, under the supervision of Aleksander Pełczyński.[5] She remained on the faculty at the University of Warsaw from 1975 until 1983, when she moved to Alberta.[3]

Recognition

In 1996, Tomczak-Jaegermann was elected to the Royal Society of Canada,[6] and in 1999 she won the Krieger–Nelson Prize for an outstanding female Canadian mathematician.[3] In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[7] She was the winner of the 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize for exceptional research in mathematics.[3]

Death

Tomczak-Jaegermann died on 17 June 2022 at the age 77 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences". University of Alberta. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis, retrieved 3 December 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e Tomczak-Jaegermann wins 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, Fields Institute, accessed 3 December 2010.
  4. ^ Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole (1989), Banach-Mazur distances and finite-dimensional operator ideals, Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics 38, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow; copublished in the United States with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp. xii+395, ISBN 0-582-01374-7, MR 0993774.
  5. ^ Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  6. ^ RSC, accessed 3 December 2010.
  7. ^ Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole (1998). "From finite to infinite-dimensional phenomena in geometric functional analysis on local and asymptotic levels". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 731–742.
  8. ^ Zmarła Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (1945–2022)