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

Polish-Canadian Polish Canadians ( pl, Polonia w Kanadzie, french: Canadiens Polonais) are citizens of Canada with Polish ancestry, and Poles who immigrated to Canada from abroad. At the 2016 Census, there were 1,106,585 Canadians who claimed full or partial ...

mathematician, 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, and is unusual in combining

asymptotic analysis In mathematical analysis, asymptotic analysis, also known as asymptotics, is a method of describing limiting behavior. As an illustration, suppose that we are interested in the properties of a function as becomes very large. If , then as beco ...

with the theory of

Banach space In mathematics, more specifically in functional analysis, a Banach space (pronounced ) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows the computation of vector length and distance between vect ...

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

Fields medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award h ...

ist Timothy Gowers' solution to Stefan Banach's homogeneous space problem, posed in 1932.Tomczak-Jaegermann wins 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize
Fields Institute, 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, 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 The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

, 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 cont ...

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 institu ...

for exceptional research in mathematics.

Death

Tomczak-Jaegermann died on 17 June 2022 at the age 77 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Zmarła Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (1945–2022)
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