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Vera Spinadel

lived from 1929 to 2017

Vera W de Spinadel was the first woman to be awarded a mathematics Ph.D. by the University of Buenos Aires. She was an Argentine mathematician whose main contributions were to mathematics in architecture, art, and design. She introduced the "metallic means family" which generalises the Golden Ratio.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Spinadel/