Alice Roth was born in 1905 in Bern, Switzerland and died in 1977 of cancer at age 72. She was the middle child in her family, which moved to Zurich when she was six. Roth studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, Latin, and foreign languages at a higher education school for girls. She then attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, studying more mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy. Roth spent 10 years teaching at public and private schools before retiring in 1971. She worked with Paul Gauthier at the University of Montreal, leading to a joint publication in 1976. Roth received monetary awards for her work and was the first woman to earn the ETH Silver Medal from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
2. Alice Roth was born on February 6, 1905 in
Bern, Switzerland
She died in 1977 after developing cancer at the
age of 72.
3. Alice Roth parents is the middle child of Conrad
Roth and Marie Roth.
When Alice was six, her family moved to Zurich
Area.
She attended at a municipal school for higher
educated girls
She studied
mathematics, physics, chemistry, Latin, and
other foreign languages.
4. Roth passed a examination in 1924 which
allowed her to attend at a university.
She then studied mathematics
, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
She attended Swiss Federal Institute
Technology
5. She spent 10 years teaching at public and
private schools
She completed a master thesis on “Extension of
Weierstrass Approximation Theorem to the
complex plan and to an infinite interval "under
the direction of George Polya
She retired from teaching in 1971.
She worked with Paul Gauthier at the University
of Montreal leading to a 1976 joint publication
in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics.
6. Roth was awarded a monetary prize.
She was also awarded with the ETH Silver
Medal, the first woman to earn this distinction
from ETH.
7. http://www.agnescott.edu/lriddle/women/aliceroth.htm
Alice in Switzerland: The life and mathematics of
Alice Roth
