Krystyna Maria Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, where she was formerly an Alumni Professor of Mathematics.
Early life and family
Her parents, Jan W. and Barbara H. Trybulec, were pharmacists and owned a pharmacy in Tarnów. Her older brother is Andrzej Trybulec. Her husband Włodzimierz Kuperberg and her son Greg Kuperberg are also mathematicians,
Education and career
After attending high school in Gdańsk, she entered the University of Warsaw in 1962, where she studied mathematics. Her first mathematics course was taught by Andrzej Mostowski; later she attended topology lectures of Karol Borsuk and became fascinated by topology. In 1998, she was elected to the AMS Editorial Boards Committee.
Contributions
In 1987 she solved a problem of Bronisław Knaster concerning bi-homogeneity of continua. The solution to that problem led to her 1993 work in which she constructed a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2025, she was elected as a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.