Meeting with Edith Müller

Abstract

It was on the occasion of the presentation of her thesis Moresque Ornaments and Group Theory (dealing with the geometric figures of the Alhambra, in Granada) that I met Edith Müller, in 1943. I was to begin my own studies as a physicist, and she impressed me deeply indeed, on one hand by the selection of her thesis subject, mostly of an artistic nature (see hereabove p.2), but treated with such a rigorous weapon as mathematics, and on the other hand, and perhaps still more, by the fact she was facing with determination a purely male and stern assembly who listened politely.