Nira Dyn

Nira (Richter) Dyn (Hebrew: נירה דין‎) is an Israeli mathematician who studied geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, approximation theory, and image compression. She is a professor emeritus of applied mathematics at Tel Aviv University,[1] and has been called a "pioneer and leading researcher in the subdivision community".[2]

Education and career

Dyn earned a bachelor's degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1965. She went on to graduate study at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she earned a master's degree in 1967 and completed her doctorate in 1970.[1] Her dissertation, Optimal and Minimum Norm Approximations to Linear Functionals in Hilbert Spaces, and their application to Numerical Integration, was supervised by Philip Rabinowitz.[3] After postdoctoral research in the Institute of Fundamental Studies at the University of Rochester, she joined the Tel Aviv faculty in 1972, and retired in 2010.[1]

Recognition

Dyn was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, in the section on numerical analysis and scientific computing.[4]

Books

Dyn is the author of:

  • Stochastic Models in Biology (as Nira Richter-Dyn, with Narendra S. Goel, Academic Press, 1974)[5]
  • Approximation of Set-valued Functions: Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators (with Elza Farkhi and Alona Mokhov, Imperial College Press, 2014)[6]

References
  1. Staff profil, Tel Aviv University, retrieved 2018-08-13
  2. Peters, Jörg; Reif, Ulrich (2008), Subdivision Surfaces, Geometry and Computing, 3, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 1, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76406-9, ISBN 978-3-540-76405-2, MR 2415757
  3. Nira Dyn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2018-08-13
  5. Reviews of Stochastic Models in Biology:
    • Dietz, K., Mathematical Reviews, MR 0381016CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Green, Richard F. (June 1975), Biometrics, 31 (2): 588, doi:10.2307/2529444, JSTOR 2529444CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Rohlf, F. James (September 1975), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 50 (3): 367, doi:10.1086/408735, JSTOR 2822426CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Review of Approximation of Set-valued Functions:
    • Coroianu, Lucian (2014), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1142/p905, ISBN 978-1-78326-302-8, MR 3309445CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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