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Divsha Amirà
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| דיבשה אמירה | |
Divsha Amirà in 1940
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Divsha Itin
1899 Brańsk, Russian Empire
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| Died | April 6, 1966 (aged 66–67) |
| Resting place | Har HaMenuchot |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva |
| Spouse(s) | Binyamin Amirà |
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| Academic advisors | Herman Müntz |
Divsha Amirà (Hebrew: דיבשה אמירה; 1899 – 9 April 1966) was an important Israeli mathematician and teacher. She was known for her work in geometry and for helping to educate many students.
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Her Early Life and Family
Divsha Amirà was born in 1899 in a place called Brańsk, which was then part of the Russian Empire. This was a very large country that existed before modern Russia.
In 1906, when Divsha was about seven years old, her family moved to the land that would later become Israel. Her father, Aharon Itin, was a very active person. He helped start a new neighborhood called Ahuzat Bayit, which grew into the big city of Tel Aviv we know today. He also helped create the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Plus, he owned the very first publishing house in Jaffa, a nearby city.
Divsha went to the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, a famous high school. She was part of the second group of students to graduate from this school in 1914.
Her Education and Studies
After high school, Divsha Amirà continued her studies at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Later, she earned her doctorate degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland in 1924. A doctorate is one of the highest degrees you can get at a university.
Her main teacher and guide during her doctorate was Herman Müntz. Divsha's big research paper, called a doctoral thesis, was published in 1925. In her thesis, she explored Euclidean geometry in a special way, looking at how shapes and spaces can be projected or viewed from different angles.
Her Teaching Career
After finishing her studies in Geneva, Divsha Amirà returned to the land that would become Israel. She started teaching at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem. She also taught geometry courses at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.
Later, she taught at other schools, including the Levinsky College of Education and Beit-Hakerem High School. Many of her students went on to become famous mathematicians themselves. One of her notable students was Ernst G. Straus.
Her Published Books
Divsha Amirà also wrote textbooks to help students learn mathematics. In 1938, she published an introductory geometry textbook for schools. This book followed the ideas of a famous mathematician named Hilbert, who used a step-by-step, logical way of building up geometry from basic rules.
She published another, more advanced textbook on geometry in 1963. These books helped many students in Israel learn about the fascinating world of shapes and spaces.
