Anna Sierpińska
Anna Sierpińska was a Polish-Canadian scholar of mathematics education, known for her investigations of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education. She was a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University.
Education and career
Sierpińska was born in Wrocław in 1947, and lived internationally with her family as a child. She earned a master's degree in 1970 from the University of Warsaw, specializing in commutative algebra. She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics education in 1984 at the Higher School of Pedagogy, Cracow.She was editor-in-chief of Educational Studies in Mathematics from 2001 to 2005.