Meike Akveld

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]

Akveld in Berkeley, 2016

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, Hanser Verlag, 2019)

References
  1. "Dr. Meike Akveld", The Department: People, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
  2. "Meike Akveld receives Golden Owl", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 27 November 2014, retrieved 2020-12-18
  3. Meike Akveld, European Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2020-12-18
  4. "Meike Akveld and the Kangaroo", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 16 March 2017, retrieved 2020-12-18
  5. Official, Kangourou sans Frontières, retrieved 2020-12-18
  6. "Meike Akveld: President Kangaroo Board", DMath News, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, 20 November 2019, retrieved 2020-12-18
  7. Meike Akveld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. Reviews of Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry:
  9. Reviews of Knoten in der Mathematik:
  10. Reviews of Knots Unravelled:
  11. Review of Analysis:
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