Background
Born Marie-Hélène Lévy, she was the daughter of mathematician Paul Lévy.
Born Marie-Hélène Lévy, she was the daughter of mathematician Paul Lévy.
She began studies at the École Normale Supérieure in 1934, but contracted tuberculosis which forced her to drop out. After the war, she taught at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and finished a thesis on generalizations of the Gauss–Bonnet formula. In 1964, she moved to the University of Lille, where she retired in 1981.
A conference was held in her honor in Lille in 1986, and a day of lectures in Paris honored her 80th birthday in 1993, during which she presented a two-hour talk herself.
She continued publishing mathematical research into her late 80s.