Vera Myller

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

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

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

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

  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