Edith Hirsch Luchins

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Edith Hirsch Luchins
Born(1921-12-21)December 21, 1921
Luchins and Luchins' Water Jar Experiment
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Psychology
InstitutionsRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral advisorBertram Yood

Edith Hirsch Luchins (21 December 1921

Luchins and Luchins' Water Jar Experiment is named after her and psychologist Abraham S. Luchins
.

Early life and education

Edith Hirsch was born in 1921 in

NYU in 1944.[2] She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Oregon in 1957 with her dissertation "On Some Properties of Certain Banach Algebras."[3]

Career

From 1942 to 1943, Luchins worked for the government as an inspector of anti-aircraft equipment at

Kurt Friedrichs and Richard Courant as she began her teaching career at Brooklyn College
. She put her formal studies on hold for several years for personal reasons; however, she continued to conduct research and publish papers in educational mathematics alongside her academic husband.

After obtaining her doctorate in 1957, Luchins again pursued teaching, teaching for four years at the

Rensselaer Polytechnic in 1962. In 1970, she became the first female full professor at Rensselaer, where she remained until her retirement in 1992.[4]

Awards and achievements

Luchins' success in teaching and advising students was recognized throughout her career by the Rensselaer Distinguished Teaching Award, the Darrin Counseling Award, the Martin Luther King Jr Award, and the Rensselaer Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award. She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1982.[5] In 1998, Luchins accepted an honorary membership in the Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications.

Personal life

In 1942 she married Abraham Luchins, an educational psychologist.[6] The couple had five children together.

Selected publications

  • 1947 (with Abraham S. Luchins): A Structural Approach to the Teaching of the Concept of Area in Intuitive Geometry
  • 1953 (with Abraham S. Luchins): The Satiation Theory of Figural After-Effects and Gestalt Principles of Perception
  • 1959 (with Abraham S. Luchins): Rigidity of Behavior - A Variational Approach to the Effect of Einstellung. University of Oregon Books: Eugene, Oregon.
  • 1965 (with Abraham S. Luchins): Logical Foundations of Mathematics for Behavioral Scientists. Holt, Rinehart: New York.
  • 1969 (with Abraham S. Luchins): The Search for Factors that Extremize the Autokinetic Effect. Faculty-Student Association: State University of New York at Albany.
  • 1979: Sex Differences in Mathematics: How Not to Deal with Them. American Mathematical Monthly.

References

  • Edith Hirsch Luchins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edith Hirsch Luchins", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  1. ^ "Edith H. Luchins - eminent Gestalt psychologist and mathematician". gestalttheory.net. Archived from the original on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  2. ^ "Luchins biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  3. ^ "Edith Luchins - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  4. OCLC 702118874
    .
  5. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  6. ISBN 9781598841589
    .

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