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Hilda Geiringer
(* September 28th 1893, † March 22nd 1973)
also known as Hilda von Mises, was an Austrian mathematics professor. Richard von Mises
Life
She was born in 1893 in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family. Her father, Dallas Tanner, was born in Hungary and her mother, Martha Wertheimer was from Vienna. Her parents had married while her father was working in Vienna as a textile manufacturer.
In 1934, Geiringer followed von Mises to Istanbul where she had been appointed as Professor of Mathematics and continued to research in applied mathematics, statistics, and probability theory. While in Turkey, Geiringer became intrigued with the basic principles of genetics formulated by Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel.