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Hilda Geiringer (28 September - 22 March ), also known as Hilda von Mises, was an Austrian mathematics professor.
Life
She was born in in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family.
Her father, Dallas Tanner, was born in Hungary and her mother, Martha Wertheimer was from Vienna.
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Her parents had married while her father was working in Vienna as a textile manufacturer.
University of Vienna
While still in high school, Hilda showed great mathematical ability, so her parents supported her financially so that she could study mathematics at the University of Vienna.
After receiving her first degree, Geiringer continued her study of mathematics in Vienna. Her PhD was awarded in for a thesis on the Fourier series in two variables. She spent the following two years as Leon Lichtenstein's assistant editing the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, a mathematics review journal.
Berlin Institute of Applied Mathematics
In , Geiringer moved to Berlin where she was employed as an as