Born: 20 February 1936, Suriname
Died: 11 May 2020
Country most active: Netherlands
Also known as: Aïda Beatrijs Paalman-de Miranda
Born in Suriname in 1936, Aïda Beatrijs “Ietje” Paalman-de Miranda moved to the Netherlands when she was 17 to study mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. The only woman in her class, she went on to earn her doctorate and become the first woman to be a full professor of mathematics at the university, specializing in topology and set theory.