title: Anna Romanowska
text: # Anna Romanowska
  
  Anna B. Romanowska is a Polish mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is professor emeritus of algebra and combinatorics at the Warsaw University of Technology, and was the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Romanowska earned her Ph.D. in 1973 at the Warsaw University of Technology. Her dissertation, Toward an Algebraic Study of the Tone System, was supervised by Tadeusz Traczyk [pl]. She became the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics, for 1993–1994.
  
  ## Books
  
  Romanowska is the coauthor of three books on abstract algebra with Jonathan D. H. Smith:
  
  * Modal theory: an algebraic approach to order, geometry, and convexity (Heldermann, 1985)
  * Post-modern algebra (Wiley, 1999)
  * Modes (World Scientific, 2002)
  