[HM] women mathematicians

Moshe' Machover (moshe.machover@kcl.ac.uk)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 20:31:36 +0100

At 11:59 am -0400 9/7/98, Larry Riddle wrote:
>My students and I have been developing a web site on biographies of
>women mathematicians. Most of the women we currently profile are from
>the U.S., Canada, or Europe. I would be very interested in names of
>women from other parts of the world--in particular Central and South
>America, Africa, and Asia--who made significant contributions to
>mathematics, or were some of the early pioneers in studying mathematics,
>or played some important role in the history and development of
>mathematics in those countries. Any suggestions of names, and
>particularly references, would be most welcomed.

Divsha Amira published in Palestine (now Israel) the earliest Hebrew text
presenting a modern (Hilbert-style) axiomatization of Euclidean geometry.
She was one of the pioneers of academic level mathematics in that country.
I have no further details, but someone at the Maths Dept of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem may be able to help. (Her husband, Benjamin Amira,
a former student of Edmund Landau, was professor at the HUJ.)

ATB,

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