“I hope there will be better conditions for the next generations of women. In the meantime, one has to go on as well as possible.”
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Hilda Geiringer
Hilda Geiringer, also known as Hilda von Mises and Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer, was an Austrian mathematician.
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science · Austrian mathematician · mathematician · university teacher · statistician · also Hilda Geiringer, Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer, Geiringer
Born 28 September 1893 · Died 22 March 1973 · Q168267
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-03-22.
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1959· 2 entries
Geiringer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Formally retired from Wheaton College and, in the following year, that College honored her with the award of an honorary Doctorate of Science
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1956· 1 entry
The University of Berlin, perhaps to assuage group guilt, perhaps to add a luminary name to its roster, elected her Professor Emeritus and placed her on full salary
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1953· 2 entries
Richard von Mises died and the following year Geiringer, although retaining her job at Wheaton College, began to work at Harvard, completing and editing many of von Mises’ unfinished works, with the help of von Mises' st
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“have to work scientifically, besides my college work. This is a necessity for me; I never stopped it since my student days, it is the deepest need of my life.”
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1943· 1 entry
And, the following year, she left her part-time, low-pay lecturing post at Bryn Mawr College to be nearer to him and because the Wheaton College offered her her first permanent position in the USA
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
“I am sure that our President would not approve of a woman. We have some women on our staff, so it is not merely prejudice against women, yet it is partly that, for we do not want to bring in more if we can get men.”
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1938· 1 entry
Geiringer and her daughter went to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in the United States, where she was appointed to a lecturer position
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1934· 1 entry
Geiringer followed von Mises to Istanbul where she had been appointed as Professor of Mathematics and continued to research in applied mathematics, statistics, and probability theory
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1933· 1 entry
But the proposal had been ”put on hold” once the Civil Service Law came into effect two months after Adolf Hitler attained power
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1922· 1 entry
And went on to work for the Reichspost (Postal service) in Berlin, applying mathematical methods to telephone connections
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1921· 1 entry
Geiringer moved to Berlin where she was employed as an assistant to Richard Edler von Mises at the Institute of Applied Mathematics
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1917· 2 entries
Under the guidance of Wilhelm Wirtinger with a thesis entitled "Trigonometrische Doppelreihen" about Fourier series in two variables
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Studied at University of Vienna (1917).
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-09-28.
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