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Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest
1905Oct, 28

Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest

Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984)
Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, later van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, (Vienna, October 28, 1905 – Dordrecht, November 29, 1984) was a Dutch mathematician. She was the daughter of Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) and Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (1876–1964).

Under her married name, Tanja van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, she is known for her contributions to De Bruijn sequences, low-discrepancy sequences, and the BEST theorem.

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