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

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, 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 Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...

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 (for example, Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics ...

, and is unusual in combining

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with the theory of

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s and infinite-dimensional convex bodies. It formed a key component of

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ist

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' solution to

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'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 (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

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

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, and in 1999 she won the Krieger–Nelson Prize for an outstanding female Canadian mathematician. In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the

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in Berlin. She was the winner of the 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize 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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