Ruth moufang biography

Biography.
Biography.
Ruth Moufang was a German mathematician.

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Ruth Moufang

Ruth Moufang, a la dreta, amb Olga Taussky-Todd, 1932 Nascimento 10 de janeiro de 1905
DarmstadtMorte 26 de novembro de 1977 (72 anos)
Frankfurt am MainResidência Frankfurt am MainNacionalidade alemãCidadania Alemanha Progenitores Alma materUniversidade de FrankfurtOcupação matemática, pedagoga, professora universitáriaEmpregador(a) Universidade de Frankfurt, Universidade de Conisberga, Krupp AG, Universidade de FrankfurtOrientador(a)(es/s) Max Dehn^[1]Instituições Universidade de FrankfurtCampo(s) MatemáticaTese 1931: Zur Struktur der projektiven Geometrie der EbeneObras destacadas loop de Moufang, loop de Moufang comutativo, plano de Moufang, polígono de Moufang, conjunto de Moufang

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History of Scientific Women

Ruth MOUFANG

20th century

Fields:Mathematics

Born: 1905 in Darmstadt (Germany)
Death: 1977 in Frankfort-on-Main (Germany)

Main achievements:Moufang plane. Moufang polygon. Moufang–Lie algebra. Moufang loop. First woman professor at the University of Frankfurt

Ruth Moufang was a German mathematician. Born to a German chemist Dr. Eduard Moufang and Else Fecht Moufang, she studied mathematics at the University of Frankfurt. In 1931 she received her Ph.D. on projective geometry under the direction of Max Dehn, and in 1932 spent a fellowship year in Rome. After her year in Rome, she returned to Germany to lecture at the University of Königsberg and the University of Frankfurt. Her research in projective geometry built upon the work of David Hilbert. She was responsible for ground-breaking work on non-associative algebraic structures, including the Moufang loops named after her.

In 1933 Moufang showed Desargues's theorem does not hold in the Cayley plane. The Cayley plane uses octonion coordinates which do not satisfy the

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Ruth Moufang

January 10, 1905 - November 26, 1977

Moufang studied mathematics at the University of Frankfurt, passing the teacher's examination in 1929. She received her Ph.D. in 1931 on projective geometry, then spent a fellowship year in Rome. She returned to Germany to lecture at the University of Konigsberg, then at the University of Frankfurt. She went on to complete her habilitation thesis, which entitled her to teach at the university level in Germany, but because she was a woman, Hitler's minister of education would not allowed her to teach the mostly male student population. Moufang therefore became the first German woman with a doctorate to be employed as an industrial mathematician when she went to work for the Krupps Research Institute in the fall of 1937. In 1946 she was finally able to accept a teaching position at the University of Frankfurt where, in 1957, she became the first woman in Germany to be appointed as a full professor.

Moufang helped to create a new mathematical specialty in the algebraic analysis of projective planes that drew upon a mixture o