> 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.
Divsha Amira's thesis was published in French in Tel-Aviv in 1925. The text
Machover is referring to may be a translation of this. The thesis is titled
"La Synthese Projective de la Geometrie Euclidienne" (I'm not putting in the
accents, which don't travel well in email). It was approved by the
Universite de Geneve on July 14, 1924. A professeur H.Fehr is mentioned,
but I am not sure if he was the supervisor. (I cannot really read French,
only mathematics). Taking a second look, it seems that the supervisor was
Dr. Ch. H. Muntz of Goettingen.
>(Her husband, Benjamin Amira,
> a former student of Edmund Landau, was professor at the HUJ.)
And, I may add, both Moshik Machover and I took courses with him. I believe
that Divsha and he were divorced at the time. DA in her thesis thanks, in
addition to Muntz and Fehr, also Landau, so she had some connection
with him.
>
> ATB,
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