Tilla Weinstein

Her research concerned differential geometry, including conformal structures, harmonic maps, and Lorentz surfaces.

She taught for many years at Rutgers University, where she headed the mathematics department in the Douglass Residential College.

She began her undergraduate studies in 1951 as an English major at the University of Michigan, in part to get away from her parents' rocky marriage and to live near relatives in Detroit.

[1] At NYU, her calculus instructor, Jean van Heijenoort, noted her ability, encouraged her to participate in the school's team for the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, and led her to take advanced classes in mathematics, including a class in complex analysis from Lipman Bers.

[2] In 1970, Weinstein was hired by Rutgers University to become the chair of the mathematics department in the Douglass Residential College.