Born: 1899, Poland
Died: 9 April 1966
Country most active: Israel
Also known as: Divsha Itin, דיבשה אמירה
Israeli mathematician and educator Divsha Amirà emigrated with her family from Poland (then the Russian empire) to Tel Aviv in 1906, where her father was a founder of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue, and owner of Jaffa’s first publishing house in Jaffa. In 1914, she graduated with the second class of the Herzliya Gymnasium.
Amirà studied at the University of Göttingen and went on to earn her doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1924, advised by Herman Müntz. Published in 1925, her doctoral thesis provided a projective synthesis of Euclidean geometry. Returning to what is now Israel, she worked at Jerusalem’s Gymnasia Rehavia, teaching geometry at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, and later teaching at the Levinsky College of Education and Beit-Hakerem High School. She married fellow mathematician Binyamin A. Amirà.
Amirà wrote an introductory geometry textbook, published in 1938, followed by a more advanced textbook on the same topic in 1963.