Dona Anschel Papert Strauss (born April 1934)[1] is a South African mathematician working in topology and functional analysis.
[2] She has also been active in the political left, lost one of her faculty positions over her protests of the Vietnam War, and became a founder of European Women in Mathematics.
[3] Strauss is originally from South Africa, the descendant of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
[13] In 1986, Strauss became one of the five founders of European Women in Mathematics, together with Bodil Branner, Caroline Series, Gudrun Kalmbach, and Marie-Françoise Roy.
[19] Papert was also South African, and became a co-author and fellow student of Frank Smithies with Strauss at Cambridge.