She fled the Nazis, only to face a new challenge: being accepted in academia. When 46-year-old Hilda Geiringer arrived in New York with her daughter Magda, she must have felt relieved. The year was 1939. And Geiringer, as well as a talented mathematician, was a Jewish woman from Vienna. For six years, she’d been seeking an escape from the Nazi threat in Europe. In that time, she’d fled to Turkey,