Nira Dyn
{{short description|Israeli mathematician}}{{Infobox academic
| name = Nira Dyn
| native_name = נירה דין
| native_name_lang = he
| alma_mater = Weizmann Institute of Science
| thesis_title = Optimal and Minimum Norm Approximations to Linear Functionals in Hilbert Spaces, and their application to Numerical Integration
| thesis_year = 1970
| doctoral_advisor = Philip Rabinowitz
| discipline = Applied mathematics
| sub_discipline = Geometry
| workplaces = Tel Aviv University
| birth_date = 1942
}}
Nira (Richter) Dyn ({{langx|he|נירה דין}}; born 1942) 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,{{r|tau}} and has been called a "pioneer and leading researcher in the subdivision community".{{r|pr}}
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.{{r|tau}}
Her dissertation, Optimal and Minimum Norm Approximations to Linear Functionals in Hilbert Spaces, and their application to Numerical Integration, was supervised by Philip Rabinowitz.{{r|mgp}}
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.{{r|tau}}
Recognition
Dyn was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, in the section on numerical analysis and scientific computing.{{r|icm}}
Books
Dyn is the author of:
- Stochastic Models in Biology (as Nira Richter-Dyn, with Narendra S. Goel, Academic Press, 1974){{r|smb}}
- Approximation of Set-valued Functions: Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators (with Elza Farkhi and Alona Mokhov, Imperial College Press, 2014){{r|asvf}}
References
{{reflist|refs=
Review of Approximation of Set-valued Functions:
- {{citation|first=Lucian|last=Coroianu|journal=Mathematical Reviews|title=none|mr=3309445|doi=10.1142/p905|year=2014|isbn=978-1-78326-302-8}}
| last1 = Peters | first1 = Jörg
| last2 = Reif | first2 = Ulrich
| doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-76406-9
| isbn = 978-3-540-76405-2
| mr = 2415757
| page = 1
| publisher = Springer-Verlag, Berlin
| series = Geometry and Computing
| title = Subdivision Surfaces
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=J7iJCBUSZDYC&pg=PA1
| volume = 3
| year = 2008}}
Reviews of Stochastic Models in Biology:
- {{citation|first=K.|last=Dietz|journal=Mathematical Reviews|title=none|mr=0381016}}
- {{citation | last = Green | first = Richard F. | date = June 1975 | doi = 10.2307/2529444 | issue = 2 | journal = Biometrics | page = 588 | title = none | volume = 31| jstor = 2529444 }}
- {{citation|title=none|first=F. James|last=Rohlf|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=50|issue=3|date=September 1975|page=367|jstor=2822426|doi=10.1086/408735}}
}}
External links
- [http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~niradyn/ Home page]
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Category:Israeli mathematicians
Category:Israeli women mathematicians
Category:Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Weizmann Institute of Science alumni