Yvette Amice
Yvette Amice | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 June 1936 |
| Died | July 4, 1993 (aged 57) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Number theory |
Yvette Amice (4 June 1936 – 4 July 1993) was a French mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis.[1] She was the second woman president of the Société mathématique de France. She wrote a textbook on the p-adic number system, published in 1975 in France.
Education
Amice studied mathematics at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres, from 1956, earning her agrégation in 1959.[1] She became an assistant at the Faculté des sciences de Paris until 1964, when she completed a state doctorate under the supervision of Charles Pisot. Her dissertation was Interpolation p-adique [p-adic interpolation].[1][2][3]
Career
On completing her doctorate, Amice became maître de conférences (lecturer) at the University of Poitiers. In 1966, she was appointed professor at the University of Bordeaux and gave the Cours Peccot lecture series at the Collège de France.[3]
Amice returned to Poitiers in 1968, then in 1970 became one of the founding professors of Paris Diderot University, where she was vice president from 1978 to 1981. She was director of a seminar on number theory at the university.[3]
In 1975 she became president of the Société mathématique de France.[1] She had been one of three vice-presidents to the society in 1974, and was the only woman on the 25-member council. She was the second woman president of the society, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin in 1952.[3] The third woman president, Mireille Martin-Deschamps, did not achieve that role until 1988.[3]
Amice died in Passy, Haute-Savoie on 4 July 1993 from cancer.[3]
Textbook
Amice was the author of a textbook on the p-adic number system, Les nombres p-adiques (Presses Universitaires de France, 1975).[4]
Recognition
In 1963, Amice was awarded the Albert Châtelet Medal.[5]
In 2026, Amice was announced as one of 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower. The plan was announced by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo following the recommendations of a committee led by Isabelle Vauglin of Femmes et Sciences and Jean-François Martins, representing the operating company which runs the Eiffel Tower.[6][7][8][5]
References
- ^ a b c d Barsky, Daniel; Kahane, Jean-Pierre (1994), "Yvette Amice (1936–1993)" (PDF), Gazette des Mathématiciens (61): 83–87, MR 1289341.
- ^ Yvette Amice at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d e f Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette (2015-09-02). "Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century". BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. 30 (3): 227–242. arXiv:1502.07597. doi:10.1080/17498430.2014.976804. ISSN 1749-8430.
- ^ Review of Les nombres p-adiques by W. Bartenwerfer, MR 0447195 (in German).
- ^ a b "Eiffel Tower to honor 72 women scientists for posterity". 2026-01-26. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
- ^ "Eiffel Tower: a list of 72 women scientists will soon be inscribed on the Parisian monument". www.sortiraparis.com. Retrieved 2026-02-02.
- ^ "Les noms des 72 femmes pour la Tour Eiffel ont été révélés". Femmes & Sciences (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-22.
- ^ 72 femmes de sciences pour la tour Eiffel Femmes & Sciences (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-22