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Science & Medicine

Hilda Geiringer

Who

Hilda Geiringer · Science & Medicine

What

Applied mathematics; theory of plasticity and genetics

When

1893, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1973, Santa Barbara, California, United States

Where

Austria · United States

Biography

Hilda Geiringer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Applied mathematics; theory of plasticity and genetics

How & why

Hilda Geiringer was an applied mathematician who made lasting contributions to the theory of plasticity — the Geiringer equations for plastic flow — and to mathematical genetics and probability. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, she fled Nazi persecution, emigrating via Turkey to the United States. She was Jewish.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Applied mathematics; theory of plasticity and genetics

1893

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics