Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include knot theory, symplectic geometry, and mathematics education. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and teacher education group in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.[1][2][3] She is also the organizer of the Mathematical Kangaroo competitions in Switzerland,[4] and president of the Association Kangourou sans Frontières, a French-based international society devoted to the popularization of mathematics.[5][6]
Education
Akveld earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick and took Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge.[3] She completed her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2000, with the dissertation Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops, a Legendrian knot and a travelling wave jointly supervised by Dietmar Salamon and Leonid Polterovich.[7]
Books
Akveld’s mathematics books include:
Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry (by Tian Gang, based on notes taken by Akveld, Birkhäuser, 2000)[8]
Knoten in der Mathematik: Ein Spiel mit Schnüren, Bildern und Formeln (Knots in mathematics: A game with strings, pictures and formulas, in German, Orell Füssli, 2007)[9]
Hofer geometry for Lagrangian loops: And a Legendrian Knot and a travelling wave (VDM Verlag, 2008)
Integrieren – do it yourself (in German, with Ursula Eisler and Daniel Zogg, Orell Füssli, 2010)
Knots Unravelled: From String to Mathematics (with Andrew Jobbings, Arbelos, 2011)[10]
Analysis I and Analysis II (in German, with René Sperb, VDF Hochschulverlag, 2012 and 2015)[11]
Knopen in de wiskunde (Knots in mathematics, in Dutch, with Ab van der Roest, Epsilon Uitgaven, 2015)
Mathe mit dem Känguru 5: Die schönsten Aufgaben von 2015 bis 2019 (Math with the kangaroo 5: The most beautiful problems from 2015 to 2019, in German, with Alexander Unger, Monika Noack, and Robert Geretschläger [de], Hanser Verlag, 2019)
References
- ^ “Dr. Meike Akveld”, The Department: People, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ “Meike Akveld receives Golden Owl”, DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 27 November 2014, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ Jump up to:a b Meike Akveld, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ “Meike Akveld and the Kangaroo”, DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 16 March 2017, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ Official, Kangourou sans Frontières, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ “Meike Akveld: President Kangaroo Board”, DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 20 November 2019, retrieved 2020-12-18
- ^ Meike Akveld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry:
- Bokan, Neda, zbMATH, Zbl 0978.53002
- Kasparian, Azniv (2001), MathSciNet, MR 1787650
- ^ Reviews of Knoten in der Mathematik:
- Ernst, Claus, zbMATH, Zbl 1232.57005
- Schneebeli, H. R. (2008), Elemente der Mathematik: 194–196, doi:10.4171/em/108
- ^ Reviews of Knots Unravelled:
- Banks, Jessica, zbMATH, Zbl 1245.57001
- Díaz, Raquel (2013), Elemente der Mathematik, 68 (1): 44, doi:10.4171/em/218
- Fenn, Roger (July 2014), “Review” (PDF), London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 438, pp. 47–48
- Johannes, Jeff, MathSciNet, MR 2895061
- Macleod, N. G. (May 2012), Mathematics in School, 41 (3): 39, JSTOR 23269228
- Ruane, P. N. (March 2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (541): 179–180, doi:10.1017/S002555720000111X, JSTOR 24496633, S2CID 233361347
- Taylor, Scott (April 2012), “Review”, MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
- ^ Review of Analysis:
- Rogosin, Sergei V., zbMATH, Zbl 1311.26001
