Antonella Zanna facts for kids

Antonella Zanna Munthe-Kaas is a brilliant mathematician from Italy. She studies how to solve math problems using computers. Her work helps with things like understanding medical images. She is a professor and leads the math department at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Her School Days

Antonella Zanna was born in Molfetta, a town in southern Italy. She studied mathematics at the University of Bari. Later, she went to the famous University of Cambridge in England. In 1998, she earned her PhD there. A PhD is a very high degree you get after a lot of advanced study and research. Her special project was about solving math problems called "Isospectral Flows." Her teacher for this project was Arieh Iserles.

Awards and Honors

Antonella Zanna is a very respected mathematician. In 1997, she won the Second Prize in the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis. This is a big award for people who are good at numerical analysis, which is about solving math problems using computers. She is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. This means she is recognized as a top expert in technology and science in Norway.

Her Family Life

Antonella Zanna married a Norwegian mathematician named Hans Munthe-Kaas in 1997. They have two children and a dog.