Fatma Moalla (born January 14, 1939) is a Tunisian mathematician who has published research on
Finsler spaces and geometry and worked as an assistant at
Faculté des Sciences Mathématique, Physiques et Naturelles. The International Fatma Moalla Award for the Popularization of Mathematics is now given in her honor.
Biography
Fatma Moalla was born in
Tunis, Tunisia
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on January 14, 1939. Her father's name was Mohamed Moalla and he worked selling books. She attended secondary school at
Lycée de la Rue du Pacha
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. In 1956, Moalla switched schools and began attending Lycée Carnot of Tunis where she chose to specialize in mathematics. Moalla then attended university at "Institut des Hautes Études de Tunis...
ndShe graduated with her mathematics degree in June 1960."
[ Moalla is the first Tunisian to have been awarded the ]Agrégation
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in Mathematics in France in 1961 and the first Tunisian woman to be awarded a doctorate
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in Mathematics in France in 1965. Later she was placed into the National Union of Tunisian Women.
Awards and achievements
The International Fatma Moalla Award for the Popularization of Mathematics is now given each year in honor of Fatma Moalla.
References
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Living people
1939 births
Tunisian mathematicians
People from Tunis