Alice Roth
Swiss mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of Zurich
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alice Roth was a Swiss mathematician who invented the Swiss cheese set and made significant contributions to approximation theory. She was born, lived and died in Bern, Switzerland. Life Alice attended the Höhere Töchterschule of Zürich, a municipal school for higher education for girls. After graduation in 1924 she studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at ETH Zurich under George Pólya. She graduated with a diploma in 1930. Her Master's thesis was titled "Extension of Weierstrass's Approximation Theorem to the complex plane and to an infinite interval". After that, she was a teacher at multiple high schools for girls in the Zurich area while continuing working with Pólya at ETH. In 1938 she became the second woman to graduate with a PhD from ETH. Her PhD Thesis was titled "Properties of approximations and radial limits of meromorphic and entire functions" and was so well regarded that it received a monetary prize and the ETH silver medal. Her supervisors were George Pólya and Heinz Hopf.
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