Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC (8 June 1945 – 17 June 2022) was a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis.^[2]

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
Tomczak-Jaegermann in 2003
Born	(1945-06-08)8 June 1945 Paris, France
Died	17 June 2022(2022-06-17) (aged 77) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Known for	Banach Space Theory[1]
Awards	Krieger–Nelson Prize (1999) CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize (2006)
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematician

Contributions

Her research is in geometric functional analysis,^[2] and is unusual in combining asymptotic analysis with the theory of Banach spaces and infinite-dimensional convex bodies. It formed a key component of Fields medalist Timothy Gowers' solution to Stefan Banach's homogeneous space problem, posed in 1932.^[3] Her 1989 monograph on Banach–Mazur distances is also highly cited.^[4]

Education and career

Tomczak-Jaegermann earned her M.S. in 1968 from the University of Warsaw,^[3] and her Ph.D. from the same university in 1974, under the supervision of Aleksander Pełczyński.^[5] She remained on the faculty at the University of Warsaw from 1975 until 1983, when she moved to Alberta.^[3]

Recognition

In 1996, Tomczak-Jaegermann was elected to the Royal Society of Canada,^[6] and in 1999 she won the Krieger–Nelson Prize for an outstanding female Canadian mathematician.^[3] In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.^[7] She was the winner of the 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize for exceptional research in mathematics.^[3]

Death

Tomczak-Jaegermann died on 17 June 2022 at the age 77 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[8]