Hermine Agavni Kalustyan

Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (, 1914 – 3 September 1989) was a Turkish-Armenian mathematician, educator, and politician.

Early life and education Kalustyan was born in 1914 in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from Paris High School Teacher Training School and from Istanbul University Mathematics Department. From 1932 to 1936, she was at Ecole Normale Superieure to study math. In 1941, she became the first woman in Turkey to obtain a Ph.D. degree in mathematics. She wrote her dissertation titled "Conformal depiction and the movement of an object" in the Istanbul University under Richard von Mises and William Prager.

Career Between 1948 and 1973, Kalustyan was appointed principal at Esayan Armenian High School. She also taught mathematics at the Getronagan and Galatasaray lyceums in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1961, she became the republic's first non-Muslim minority woman to serve in parliament with her appointment to the transitional parliament (1960–1961) that constructed the 1961 Constitution. Afterwards, she became a member of the CHP on February 18, 1961. In 1975, she published an Armenian book titled, "Towards the Past and Now: Towards Fezaya", and also moved to France.

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Ali Çakırbaş (June 2017), Non-Muslim MPs and Their Activities in the Republican Era (1923-1964), Nevşehir: Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Social Sciences Institute, p. 293, archived from the original on 12 May 2021, access date: 12 May 2021, PhD Thesis Nihal Esen (2016), Non-Muslim Members of Parliament in the Republican Era, Elazığ: Fırat University Social Sciences Institute, p. 47, archived from the original on 12 May 2021, access date: 12 May 2021, Master's Thesis Grand National Assembly of Turkey Album 1920-2010, Volume 4 (1960-1983), p. 1641, archived from the original on 21 January 2016, access date: 12 May 2021