Divsha Amirà

Divsha Amirà (Hebrew: דיבשה אמירה; 1899 – 9 April 1966) was an Israeli mathematician and educator.

Amirà was born in Brańsk, Russian Empire to Rivka (née Garbuz) and Aharon Itin.

[2] Her doctoral thesis, published in 1925, provided a projective synthesis of Euclidean geometry.

[3] After leaving Geneva, Amirà worked at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem, and taught several courses on geometry at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.

[4] She later taught at the Levinsky College of Education [he] and Beit-Hakerem High School, where her students included such future mathematicians as Ernst G. Straus.