Anna Romanowska

{{Short description|Polish mathematician}}

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Anna B. Romanowska is a Polish mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is professor emeritus of algebra and combinatorics at the Warsaw University of Technology,{{r|pw}} and was the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics.{{r|convenor}}

Education and career

Romanowska earned her Ph.D. in 1973 at the Warsaw University of Technology. Her dissertation, Toward an Algebraic Study of the Tone System, was supervised by {{ill|Tadeusz Traczyk|pl}}.{{r|mg}} She became the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics, for 1993–1994.{{r|convenor}}

Books

Romanowska is the coauthor of three books on abstract algebra with Jonathan D. H. Smith:

  • Modal theory: an algebraic approach to order, geometry, and convexity (Heldermann, 1985){{r|mt}}
  • Post-modern algebra (Wiley, 1999){{r|pma}}
  • Modes (World Scientific, 2002){{r|m}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/about-us/history/|title=History|publisher=European Women in Mathematics|access-date=2021-05-27}}

Reviews of Modes: Ewa Graczyńska, {{MR|1932199}}; Sheila Oates Williams, {{zbl|1012.08001}}

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Reviews of Modal theory: J. D. P. Meldrum, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc, {{doi|10.1017/S0013091500017508}}; S. Rudeanu, {{zbl|0553.08001}}; Boris M. Schein, {{mr|0788695}}

Reviews of Post-modern algebra: Edgar G. Goodaire, {{mr|1673047}}; Sheila Oates Williams, {{zbl|0946.00001}}

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prof. dr hab. Anna Romanowska|publisher=Warsaw University of Technology|access-date=2021-05-28}}

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