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.

Contributions

Her research is in geometric functional analysis, Her 1989 monograph on Banach–Mazur distances is also highly cited.

Education and career Tomczak-Jaegermann earned her M.S. in 1968 from the University of Warsaw, She remained on the faculty at the University of Warsaw from 1975 until 1983, when she moved to Alberta. and in 1999 she won the Krieger–Nelson Prize for an outstanding female Canadian mathematician. She was the winner of the 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize for exceptional research in mathematics.