Marianna Csörnyei facts for kids

Marianna Csörnyei (born October 8, 1975, in Budapest, Hungary) is a famous Hungarian mathematician. She works as a professor at the University of Chicago in the United States. Marianna Csörnyei studies different areas of math, including real analysis and geometric measure theory. She is well-known for proving an important idea about "zero measure" in large mathematical spaces called Banach spaces.

Her Journey in Math

Marianna Csörnyei earned her highest degree, a doctorate, from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary in 1999. Her teacher was György Petruska. After that, she became a professor at University College London in the United Kingdom, where she taught from 1999 to 2011. She also spent a year teaching at Yale University as a visiting professor. Today, she teaches at the University of Chicago.

She also helps edit a math magazine called Real Analysis Exchange. This means she helps decide which articles get published.

Amazing Awards and Honors

Marianna Csörnyei has won many important awards for her work in mathematics. In 2002, she received the Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society. In the same year, she also won a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

In 2008, she was given the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Mathematics and Statistics. She earned this award for her important discoveries in geometric measure theory.

In 2010, she was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians. This is a very special honor for mathematicians. She was also chosen to give the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture in 2022. This lecture is named after a famous woman mathematician, Emmy Noether. Marianna Csörnyei's talk was about "The Kakeya needle problem for rectifiable sets."

She is also featured in a special deck of playing cards. These cards show important women mathematicians and were published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.