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Krystyna Kuperberg

Polish-American mathematician

Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July ) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, where she was formerly an Alumni Professor of Mathematics.[1][2][3]

Early life and family

Her parents, Jan W.

and Barbara H. Trybulec, were pharmacists and owned a pharmacy in Tarnów. Her older brother is Andrzej Trybulec.

Krystyna kuperberg biography channel American Mathematical Society. It was not that she had given up mathematics in the intervening years, merely that she had not been registered as a student or held a post. Polish-American mathematician. She is known for her work in dynamical systems, geometry and topology.

Her husband Włodzimierz Kuperberg and her son Greg Kuperberg are also mathematicians,[2][3] while her daughter Anna Kuperberg is a photographer.[3][4]

Education and career

After attending high school in Gdańsk, she entered the University of Warsaw in , where she studied mathematics.

Her first mathematics course was taught by Andrzej Mostowski; later she attended topology lectures of Karol Borsuk and became fascinated by topology.[2][3]

After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Kuperberg began graduate studies at Warsaw under Borsuk, but stopped after earning a master's degree.[2][3] She left Poland in with her young family to live in Sweden, then moved to the United States in [1][2][3] She finished her Ph.D.

in , from Rice University, under the supervision of William Jaco.[2][5][3] In the same year, both she and her husband were appointed to the faculty of Auburn University.[2][3] From to , Kuperberg served as an American Mathematical Society Council member at large.[6]

Contributions

In she solved a problem of Bronisław Knaster concerning bi-homogeneity of continua.[2][3] In the s she became interested in fixed points and topological aspects of dynamical systems.

In Kuperberg and Coke Reed solved a problem posed by Stanislaw Ulam in the Scottish Book.[7] The solution to that problem led to her work in which she constructed a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture.[1][2][3] She has since continued to work in dynamical systems.[3]

Recognition

In Kuperberg received the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize from the Kościuszko Foundation.[2][3] Her major lectures include an American Mathematical Society Plenary Lecture in March , a Mathematical Association of America Plenary Lecture in January , and an International Congress of Mathematicians invited talk in [1][8] In she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9]

Selected publications

References

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  2. ^ abcdefghijO'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Krystyna Kuperberg", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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    KuperbergArchived at the Wayback Machine, Profiles of Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved

  4. ^Featured photographer: Anna Kuperberg, Wedding Photojournalist Association, retrieved
  5. ^Krystyna Kuperberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^"AMS Committees".

    American Mathematical Society. Retrieved

  7. ^A Dynamical System on R3 with Uniformly Bounded Trajectories and No Compact Trajectories, August , retrieved
  8. ^Kuperberg, Krystyna ().

    Krystyna kuperberg biography channel 7 Authority control databases. Kruyf, Ton de. Krystyna Kuperberg in Tools Tools.

    "Counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, , vol. II. pp.&#;–

  9. ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved