Person

Svéd, Márta (1910 - 2005)

Born
16 November 1910
Hungary
Died
30 September 2005
south Australia
Occupation
Mathematician and Teacher
Alternative Names
  • Wachsberger, Márta (maiden name)

Summary

Márta Svéd became interested in mathematics through a Hungarian magazine for high school mathematicians, Középiskolai Matematikai Lapok. In 1928 she took third place in the Hungarian national high school mathematics competition and subsequently studied mathematics at the Royal Joseph University in Budapest. After teaching for several years, Svéd and her husband engineer George migrated to South Australia in 1939. Between 1942 and 1958 Sved taught mathematics and physics at the Wilderness School in Adelaide. During this time she was a founder of the first Australian high school mathematics journal. In 1959 she became tutor in mathematics at the University of Adelaide, retiring in 1975. Svéd published numerous articles in the Mathematical intelligencer, Mathematics magazine, Discrete mathematics, and Mathematics teacher. For her significant contributions to the teaching of mathematics, Svéd was awarded the B. H. Neumann Award for Excellence in Mathematics Enrichment by the Australian Mathematics Trust in 1994. The University of Adelaide offers the Márta Svéd Scholarship for women mathematics students.

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Chronology

1928
Award - Placed third in the Eötvös national mathematics competition, Hungary
10 May 1939
Life event - Arrived in Melbourne with husband, George Svéd
1942
Career event - Helped found Australia's first high school mathematics magazine
1942 - 1958
Career position - Mathematics and physics teacher, Wilderness School, Adelaide
1945
Life event - Naturalised as an Australian citizen
1959 - 1967
Career position - Senior tutor, Department of Mathematics, University of Adelaide
1967 - 1975
Career position - Senior tutor, Department of Mathematics, University of Adelaide
1985
Education - PhD, University of Adelaide
1994
Award - B. H. Neumann Award for Excellence in Mathematics Enrichment, Australian Mathematics Trust (jointly)

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Published resources

Books

  • Svéd, Marta, Journey into geometries (New York: Mathematical Association of America, 1991), 182 pp. Details
  • Svéd, Marta, Two Lives and a Bonus (Norwood (S.A.): Peacock Publications, 2006), 368 pp. Details

Theses

  • Svéd, Marta, 'On finite linear and Baer structures', PhD thesis, University of Adelaide, 1985. Details

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