Yvette Amice

Yvette Amice (4 June 1936 – 4 July 1993) was a French mathematician who carried out research in the areas of number theory and -adic analysis. The Amice transform and Amice theorem for p-adic functions are named after her. She headed academic societies and was the second woman president of the Société mathématique de France. In addition to her academic work, she promoted recognition of women mathematicians and their achievements. Her doctoral work addressed p-adic zeta functions and the arithmetic of local fields.

In 1965, she gave one of the Peccot Lectures (for distinguished mathematicians under 30 years old) at the Collège de France.

Career On completing her doctorate, Amice became maître de conférences (lecturer) at the University of Poitiers. In 1966, she was appointed professor at the University of Bordeaux and gave the Cours Peccot lecture series at the Collège de France.

Amice returned to Poitiers in 1968, then in 1970 became one of the founding professors of Paris Diderot University, where she was vice president from 1978 to 1981. She was director of a seminar on number theory at the university. Various reviews at the time of release considered it to be a well-written introduction to p-adic analysis covering discussion of p-adic numbers, non-archimedean fields and Banach spaces, analytic functions, and rationality theorems.

Honours and awards In 1963, Amice was awarded the Albert Châtelet Medal for her works in p-adic analysis.

She was decorated as a knight of the Legion of Honour in January 1991.

In 2026, Amice was announced as one of 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower. The plan was conceived by a student and tour guide named Bernard Rigaud and it was taken up by Sorbonne University's President Nathalie Drach-Temam. and it was announced by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo following the recommendations of a committee led by Isabelle Vauglin of Femmes et Sciences and Jean-François Martins, representing the operating company which runs the Eiffel Tower.