Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include

knot theory In topology, knot theory is the study of knot (mathematics), mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are joined so it cannot be und ...

symplectic geometry Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the ...

, and

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. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and teacher education group in the Department of Mathematics at

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

. She is also the organizer of the Mathematical Kangaroo competitions in Switzerland, and president of the Association Kangourou sans Frontières, a French-based international society devoted to the popularization of mathematics.

Education

Akveld earned a bachelor's degree from the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

and took

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at the

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. She completed her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2000, with the dissertation ''Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops, a Legendrian knot and a travelling wave'' jointly supervised by Dietmar Salamon and Leonid Polterovich.

Books

Akveld's mathematics books include: * ''Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry'' (by Tian Gang, based on notes taken by Akveld, Birkhäuser, 2000) * ''Knoten in der Mathematik: Ein Spiel mit Schnüren, Bildern und Formeln'' (''Knots in mathematics: A game with strings, pictures and formulas'', in German, Orell Füssli, 2007) * ''Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops: And a Legendrian Knot and a travelling wave'' (VDM Verlag, 2008) * ''Integrieren - do it yourself'' (in German, with Ursula Eisler and Daniel Zogg, Orell Füssli, 2010) * '' Knots Unravelled: From String to Mathematics'' (with Andrew Jobbings, Arbelos, 2011) * ''Analysis I'' and ''Analysis II'' (in German, with René Sperb, VDF Hochschulverlag, 2012 and 2015) * ''Knopen in de wiskunde'' (''Knots in mathematics'', in Dutch, with Ab van der Roest, Epsilon Uitgaven, 2015) * ''Mathe mit dem Känguru 5: Die schönsten Aufgaben von 2015 bis 2019'' (''Math with the kangaroo 5: The most beautiful problems from 2015 to 2019'', in German, with Alexander Unger, Monika Noack, and , Hanser Verlag, 2019)

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