Edith Hirsch Luchins

Edith Hirsch Luchins (21 December 1921 Brzeziny – 18 November 2002 Suffern, New York) was a Polish-American mathematician. Edith Hirsch was married to Abraham S. Luchins. The Luchins and Luchins' Water Jar Experiment is named after them.

Selected publications

• 1959 (with Abraham S. Luchins): Rigidity of Behavior - A Variational Approach to the Effect of Einstellung. University of Oregon Books: Eugene, Oregon.
• 1965 (with Abraham S. Luchins): Logical Foundations of Mathematics for Behavioral Scientists. Holt, Rinehart: New York.
• 1969 (with Abraham S. Luchins): The Search for Factors that Extremize the Autokinetic Effect. Faculty-Student Association: State University of New York at Albany.

References

• Edith Hirsch Luchins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edith Hirsch Luchins", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Luchins.html .

External links

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• Isomorphism in Gestalt theory - Comparison of Wertheimer's and Koehler's concepts; by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins (1999)
• Comments on the Concept of Closure by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins
• Gestalt Psychologists Remarks on Psychoanalysis - compiled and commented by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins
• Kurt Grelling - Steadfast Scholar in a Time of Madness by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins