Aïda Beatrijs “Ietje” Paalman-de Miranda (20 February 1936 – 11 May 2020) was a Surinamese-born Dutch mathematician and full professor.
[1] When she was 17 years old she moved from Suriname to the Netherlands to study mathematics at the University of Amsterdam.
She defended her PhD thesis "Topological Semigroups" and obtained her degree in 1960, also cum laude.
[3] She published a book (Topological semigroups - Mathematical Centre Tracts, 1964, Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam) and 11 research papers about W-groups, topological representations of semi-groups and about compact groups.
[4] Paalman was also the author of numerous lecture notes for the courses she taught at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam.