Věra Šedivá-Trnková (March 16, 1934 – 27 May 2018) was a Czech mathematician known for her work in topology and in category theory.
[1][2] Trnková was born on March 16, 1934, in Berehove, then in Czechoslovakia and now in Ukraine; her father was a forester.
By the time she was in high school, her family lived in Prague, and she went to Charles University for study in mathematics.
[1] She continued her work on topology at Charles University as a doctoral student of Eduard Čech, earning a candidate's degree (the Czech equivalent of a Ph.D.) in 1961 with the dissertation Non-F-Topologies.
[2] Despite beginning her career working in general topology, Trnková shifted as early as 1962 to category theory.