{geni:occupation} Dr. Professor Mathematics, Mathematician
{geni:about_me} http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...geiringer.html#polla

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Geiringer wikipedia] - also known as '''Hilda von Mises''', was an Austrian mathematics professor. She was born in 1893 in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family. Her father, '''Ludwig Geiringer''', was born in Hungary and her mother, '''Martha Wertheimer''' was from Vienna. Her parents had married while her father was working in Vienna as a Textile manufacturer...

..Arguably '''Hilda Geiringer''' was one of the pioneers of what emerged as the burgeoning disciplines bearing such names as molecular genetics, human genetics, plant genetics, heredity in man, genomics, bioinformatics, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and genetic engineering, among others. The world has not given sufficient credit to this intelligent woman’s pioneering work mainly because it was done in Istanbul and published in Turkish journals.. ..1944 Professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.. ..1954, although retaining her job at Wheaton College, began to work at Harvard, completing and editing many of '''von Mises'''s unfinished works..

Or see more on [http://www5.in.tum.de/lehre/seminare/math_nszeit/S...n/hildaGeiringer.htm Mathematikerinnen während der NS-Zeit] ''(in German)'' OR see [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHilda+Pollac...er&qt=hot_author Books] by '''Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer'''