Nira (Richter) Dyn (; born 1942) is an Israeli mathematician who studied

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, and

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. She is a professor emeritus of

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, and has been called a "pioneer and leading researcher in the subdivision community".

Education and career

Dyn earned a bachelor's degree from the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

in 1965. She went on to graduate study at the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

, where she earned a master's degree in 1967 and completed her doctorate in 1970. Her dissertation, ''Optimal and Minimum Norm Approximations to Linear Functionals in Hilbert Spaces, and their application to Numerical Integration'', was supervised by Philip Rabinowitz. After postdoctoral research in the Institute of Fundamental Studies at the

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, she joined the Tel Aviv faculty in 1972, and retired in 2010.

Recognition

Dyn was an invited speaker at the 2006

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, in the section on numerical analysis and scientific computing.

Books

Dyn is the author of: *''Stochastic Models in Biology'' (as Nira Richter-Dyn, with Narendra S. Goel, Academic Press, 1974) *''Approximation of Set-valued Functions: Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators'' (with Elza Farkhi and Alona Mokhov, Imperial College Press, 2014)

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