Anna Romanowska facts for kids

Anna B. Romanowska is a talented Polish mathematician. She is known for her work in a field of math called abstract algebra. She used to be a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. She also helped start a group called European Women in Mathematics.

Learning and Career

Anna Romanowska earned her Ph.D. in 1973. A Ph.D. is a very high university degree. She got it from the Warsaw University of Technology. Her big research project was about how math can help understand music. Her teacher, Tadeusz Traczyk, helped her with this.

From 1993 to 1994, she was the first leader of European Women in Mathematics. This group helps women who work in math.

Books She Wrote

Anna Romanowska has written three books with another scientist, Jonathan D. H. Smith. These books are about abstract algebra, which is a part of math that studies patterns and structures.

• Modal theory: an algebraic approach to order, geometry, and convexity (1985)
• Post-modern algebra (1999)
• Modes (2002)