Yvette Amice (June 4, 1936 – July 4, 1993) was a French mathematician whose research concerned

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mat ...

and -adic analysis.. She was president of the

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Education

Amice studied mathematics at the

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, beginnining in 1956 and earning her agrégation in 1959. 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 Charles Pisot (2 March 1910 – 7 March 1984) was a French mathematician. He is chiefly recognized as one of the primary investigators of the numerical set associated with his name, the Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. He followed the classical p ...

. Her dissertation was ''Interpolation p-adique'' 'p-adic interpolation''

Career

On completing her doctorate, she became

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at the

University of Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; french: Université de Poitiers) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest studen ...

and then, in 1966, professor at the

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. She returned to Poitiers in 1968 but then in 1970 became one of the founding professors of

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

, where she was vice president from 1978 to 1981. In 1975 she became president of the

Textbook

Amice was the author of a textbook on the ''p''-adic number system, ''Les nombres p-adiques'' (Presses Universitaires de France, 1975).Review of ''Les nombres p-adiques'' by W. Bartenwerfer, (in German).

References

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