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Born | Verena Esther Huber May 6, 1923 Naples, Italy |
Died | March 12, 2016[1] | (aged 92)
Other names | Verena Huber, Verena Haefeli |
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Education | University of Zürich |
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Fields | Logic, algebra |
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Thesis | Ein Dualismus als Klassifikationsprinzip in der abstrakten Gruppentheorie (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Andreas Speiser |
Verena Esther Huber-Dyson (May 6, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was a Swiss-American mathematician, known for her work on group theory and formal logic.[1][2] She has been described as a "brilliant mathematician",[2] who did research on the interface between algebra and logic, focusing on undecidability in group theory. At the time of her death, she was emeritus faculty in the philosophy department of the University of Calgary, Alberta.