Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz

Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz (25 May 1931 – 23 June 2012), was a Polish professor of mathematics and long-time employee of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. During World War II, as a child, she was a resistance fighter.

Life and work Danuta Przeworska was born in Warsaw into the family of two archaeologists Stefan Przeworski and his wife Janina. Initially, Danuta wanted to pursue archaeology but switched to mathematics instead. With the outbreak of World War II, she participated in the resistance movement as a child and fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, for which she was awarded the Warsaw Uprising Cross.

Academic work

After the secondary school, she began studies at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw, where in 1956 she obtained a master's degree. Then she started research work at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1958 she obtained the title of doctor (with her dissertation titled On systems of strongly-singular integral equations, under the supervision of Witold Pogorzelski), and in 1964 she successfully defended her habilitation thesis.

Awards Warsaw Uprising Cross (1982) Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1972) Prize of the German Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences (1978)