Cecilia Krieger

Cecilia Krieger ( born April 9, 1894 in Jaslo, Galicia, then Austria - Hungary, now Poland, † August 17, 1974 in Ontario ) was a Canadian mathematician.

Warrior began in 1919 to study mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna, but in 1920 emigrated with her ​​family to Toronto. At the university there in 1925 she made her Master's degree in mathematics and in 1930 received his doctorate in WJ Webber ( On the summability of trigonometric series with localized parameters). So she was the first woman who received his doctorate in mathematics in Canada ( and the third woman ever, who holds a doctorate in Canada). She was a lecturer at the University of Toronto and since 1942 Assistant Professor. But retired in 1962 she taught until 1968 and beyond at Upper Canada College in Toronto until her death.

Translated a topology textbook by Waclaw Sierpinski into English.

The warrior - Nelson Prize for Women in Mathematics in Canada is named after her and Evelyn Nelson.

1953 she married Zygmund Dunaij.