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Divsha Amirà

Divsha Amirà was an Israeli mathematician and educator who taught geometry and wrote geometry textbooks in Hebrew.

1895 to 1966Teaching geometry in Jerusalem schoolsHebrew geometry textbooksAxiomatic foundations of geometry

Died: 9 April 1966, Jerusalem
Occupation: mathematician
Education: University of Göttingen, University of Geneva

Divsha Amirà was born in 1895 in Brańsk

Amirà was born in Brańsk to Rivka and Aharon Itin. In 1906 she moved with her family to the Land of Israel. Her father was one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit, which became Tel Aviv, and owned the first publishing house in Jaffa.

She graduated in the second class of the Herzliya Gymnasium. She studied at the University of Göttingen and earned her doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1924, under Herman Müntz. Her thesis on a projective synthesis of Euclidean geometry was published in 1925.

She taught at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem and gave geometry courses at the Hebrew University. She later taught at the Levinsky teachers college and at Beit Hakerem High School. Her students included the mathematician Ernst G. Straus.

In 1938 she published an introductory geometry textbook for schools based on Hilbert's axiomatic approach. A more advanced book on the axiomatic foundations of geometry appeared in Hebrew in 1962. She was the first wife of mathematician Binyamin Amirà and had 2 daughters. She died on 9 April 1966 and was buried at Har HaMenuchot.