Karen uhlenbeck biography
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis.
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
In she became the first female winner of the Abel Prize.
Biography
Karen Uhlenbeck's father Arnold Keskulla, was an engineer and her mother Carolyn Windeler Keskulla, was an artist.She grew up in the country, the eldest of four children.
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Many mathematicians know from early age that mathematics will be their life but this was not so with Karen Uhlenbeck. As a child she was interested in books and this led her to an interest in science. She writes [2]:-
As a child I read a lot, and I read everything.I'd go to the library and then stay up all night reading.
Field: Mathematics.I used to read under the desk in school. we lived in the country so there wasn't a whole lot to do. I was particularly interested in reading about science. I was about twelve years old when my father began bringing home Fred Hoyle's books on astrophysics.