12 Facts About Verena Huber-Dyson

Verena Esther Huber-Dyson was a Swiss-American mathematician, known for her work on group theory and formal logic.

Verena Huber-Dyson has been described as a "brilliant mathematician", who did research on the interface between algebra and logic, focusing on undecidability in group theory.

Verena Huber-Dyson studied mathematics, with minors in physics and philosophy, at the University of Zurich, where she obtained her Ph.

Verena Huber-Dyson accepted a postdoctoral fellow appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1948, where she worked on group theory and formal logic.

Verena Huber-Dyson began teaching at Goucher College near Baltimore during this time.

Verena Huber-Dyson moved to California with her daughter Katarina, began teaching at San Jose State University in 1959, and then joined Alfred Tarski's Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Verena Huber-Dyson taught at San Jose State University, the University of Zurich, Monash University, as well as at University of California, Berkeley, Adelphi University, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, in mathematics and in philosophy departments.

Verena Huber-Dyson accepted a position in the philosophy department of the University of Calgary in 1973, becoming emerita in 1988.

Verena Huber-Dyson died on March 12,2016, in Bellingham, Washington, at the age of 92.

Verena Huber-Dyson married Hans-Georg Haefeli, a fellow mathematician, in 1942, and was divorced in 1948.

Verena Huber-Dyson's first daughter, Katarina Halm, was born in 1945.

Verena Huber-Dyson subsequently married Freeman Dyson in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 11,1950.