Dona Strauss

This article is about the mathematician. For the gymnastics coach, see Donna Strauss.

Dona Anschel Papert Strauss (born April 1934)[1] is a South African mathematician working in topology and functional analysis. Her doctoral thesis was one of the initial sources of pointless topology.[2] She has also been active in the political left, lost one of her faculty positions over her protests of the Vietnam War, and became a founder of European Women in Mathematics.

Mathematician Neil Hindman, with whom Strauss wrote a book on the Stone–Čech compactification of topological semigroups, has stated the following as advice for other mathematicians: "Find someone who is smarter than you are and get them to put your name on their papers", writing that for him, that someone was Dona Strauss.[3]

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