Book Talk with Elizabeth Barry White
The Counterfeit Countess
Friday, May 10, 2024
4:00 p.m. | Rubenstein Commons

As we celebrate women in math, please join us for a Book Talk with Elizabeth Barry White on "The Counterfeit Countess, the astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish countess."

Labyrinth Books will be on-site to offer sale of The Counterfeit Countess. Book signing and reception will follow the talk.

This event is only open to our IAS Community and *Friends - register below to attend. 

*Click HERE to learn more about becoming a Friend of the Institute.

Support for this event is provided by the School of Math and the Minerva Research Program..