Ulla Margarete Dinger (born 1955) is a Swedish mathematician specializing in

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series ( ...

. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ...

. Dinger completed her doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in 1989. Her dissertation, ''On the ball problem and the Laguerre maximal operators'', was jointly supervised by Christer Borell (of the Borell–Brascamp–Lieb inequality) and Peter Sjögren. She is a senior lecturer in mathematics at the

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology (, commonly referred to as Chalmers) is a private university, private research university located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers focuses on engineering and science, but more broadly it also conducts research ...

, where she used to teach

real analysis In mathematics, the branch of real analysis studies the behavior of real numbers, sequences and series of real numbers, and real functions. Some particular properties of real-valued sequences and functions that real analysis studies include co ...

and heads the program for the Preparatory Year in Natural Sciences.

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1955 births Living people Swedish mathematicians Swedish women mathematicians University of Gothenburg alumni Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology {{Europe-mathematician-stub