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Cecilia Krieger

died 50 years ago

17 August 1974

Cypra Cecilia Krieger Dunaj was the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university and only the third person to be awarded a mathematics doctorate in Canada. She is best known for her English translation of Sierpinski's Introduction to General Topology (1934) and General Topology (1952)

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Krieger/