Divsha Amirà

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Divsha Amirà
דיבשה אמירה
Divsha Amirà in 1940
Born
Divsha Itin

1899
DiedApril 6, 1966(1966-04-06) (aged 66–67)
Resting placeHar HaMenuchot
Alma materUniversity of Geneva
SpouseBinyamin Amirà
Scientific career
Academic advisorsHerman Müntz

Divsha Amirà (Hebrew: דיבשה אמירה; 1899 – 9 April 1966) was an Israeli mathematician and educator.

Biography

Amirà was born in

publishing house in Jaffa. She graduated in the second class of the Herzliya Gymnasium in 1914.[1]

Amirà studied at the

doctoral thesis, published in 1925, provided a projective synthesis of Euclidean geometry.[3]

Pedagogic career

After leaving Geneva, Amirà worked at

Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem, and taught several courses on geometry at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.[4] She later taught at the Levinsky College of Education [he] and Beit-Hakerem High School, where her students included such future mathematicians as Ernst G. Straus
.

Published works

Amirà published an introductory

Grundlagen der Geometrie.[5] She published a more advanced textbook on the same topic in 1963.[6]

See also

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