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About Ulla Pursiheimo
- Ulla Irmeli Pursiheimo (born May 4, 1944) is a Finnish mathematician who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland.
- Her areas of interest in mathematics include mathematical optimization, control theory, search games, and later in her career mathematics education.Pursiheimo earned her doctorate from the University of Turku in 1971.
- Her dissertation, Optimization of Search With Constant Spreading Speed of Effort, was supervised by Olavi Hellman. She became a full professor of mathematics at the University of Turku in 1974, and retired to become a professor emerita in 1999.
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