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Vera Myller

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Vera Myller

Vera Myller-Lebedev (1 December 1880 – 12 December 1970) was a Russian Empire-born mathematician who earned her doctorate in Germany with David Hilbert and became the first female university professor in Romania.

Education

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Vera Lebedev was born in Saint Petersburg and educated in Novgorod. From 1897 through 1902 she participated in the Bestuzhev Courses in Saint Petersburg.[1] She then traveled to the University of Göttingen, where she completed a doctorate in 1906 under the supervision of David Hilbert. Her dissertation was Die Theorie der Integralgleichungen in Anwendungen auf einige Reihenentwickelungen, and concerned integral equations.[2]

Marriage and career

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In Göttingen, she met Romanian mathematician Alexandru Myller [ro].[1] She married him in 1907,[3] returned with him to the University of Iași, and in 1910 joined the mathematics faculty there. In 1918 she was promoted to full professor,[1][3] becoming Romania's first female professor.[3][4]

She died in Iași in 1970, and is buried at the city's Eternitatea Cemetery.[5]

Contributions

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She wrote Romanian-language textbooks on algebra (1942) and algebraic applications of group theory (1945),[4] and won the Romanian State Prize in 1953 for her algebra text.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Myller, Vera (1880 – 1970), Digital Mechanism and Gear Library, retrieved 18 November 2018
  2. ^ Vera Myller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b c Corduneanu, Constantin (2011), "The centennial of a Romanian mathematical school", Alexandru Myller Mathematical Seminar Centennial Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1329, pp. 3–15, doi:10.1063/1.3546071, ISBN 978-0-7354-0884-5
  4. ^ a b Myller-Lebedev Vera (1880-1970), Central Library of the University of Iași, retrieved 18 November 2018
  5. ^ "Vera Myller, prima femeie profesor universitar din România", iasimulticultural.ro (in Romanian), 2018, retrieved 31 October 2020