Anna Romanowska

Anna B. Romanowska is a Polish mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is professor emeritus of algebra and combinatorics at the Warsaw University of Technology,^[1] and was the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics.^[2]

Education and career

Romanowska earned her Ph.D. in 1973 at the Warsaw University of Technology. Her dissertation, Toward an Algebraic Study of the Tone System, was supervised by Tadeusz Traczyk [pl].^[3] She became the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics, for 1993–1994.^[2]

Books

Romanowska is the coauthor of three books on abstract algebra with Jonathan D. H. Smith:

• Modal theory: an algebraic approach to order, geometry, and convexity (Heldermann, 1985)^[4]
• Post-modern algebra (Wiley, 1999)^[5]
• Modes (World Scientific, 2002)^[6]