Christine Williams Ayoub

Christine Williams Ayoub (* 1922 ) is an American mathematician and university professor . She is Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University .

life and work

Williams Ayoub was born to the pianist Anne Christine Sykes and the mathematician William Lloyd Garrison Williams . She studied mathematics and did her doctorate in 1947 at Yale University under Reinhold Baer and Nathan Jacobson with the dissertation: A Theory of Normal Chains. From 1947 to 1951 she was an instructor at Cornell University . In 1950 she married the mathematician Raymond Ayoub , with whom she had the daughter Cynthia Anne in 1953 and the daughter Daphne Nazeera in 1955. From 1951 to 1952 she was a scholarship holder of the National Science Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and studied at Harvard University . In 1952, she and her husband got an assistant professorship at Pennsylvania State University , where she taught until her retirement as a professor. From 1966 to 1967 she did research at the Institute for Advanced Study . From 1984 to 1985 she lived in Saudi Arabia , where her husband was visiting professor at King Saud University in Riyadh . From 1986 to 1987 she lived in Bethlehem , where her husband had received a Fulbright scholarship at Bethlehem University . In 1988 she did research as a Fulbright scholar in Rabat , Morocco and in the following years lived in Syria and in 1995 in Jordan , where her husband had received another Fulbright scholarship.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

On the Primary Subgroups of a Group , Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1952
My recollections of the early days of the congress and of my father, Lloyd Williams , in Canadian Mathematical Society 1945–1995, Vol 1, Canadian Math. Soc., Ottawa, ON, 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME	Williams Ayoub, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Williams Ayoub, Christine S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1922