Judith Roitman

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Judith "Judy" Roitman (born November 12, 1945 in New York City ) is an American mathematician .

Judith Roitman studied at Oberlin College and Sarah Lawrence College , earned her bachelor's degree in English in 1966 and originally wanted to become an English teacher. She then studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University while teaching as an elementary school teacher. In 1974 she received her PhD with Robert M. Solovay in Berkeley (Hereditary Properties of Topological Spaces). She taught from 1974 for three years as an assistant professor at Wellesley College , was in 1977 at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1978 assistant professor and from 1986 professor at the University of Kansas .

She deals with topology, set theory, Boolean algebra and mathematics education.

From 1979 to 1981 she was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics . In 1996 she received the Louise Hay Award for Mathematics Education. She was one of the authors of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics . She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Roitman also published poetry and studied Zen Buddhism (she was one of the founders and teaches of the Kansas Zen Center in 1978). She is married to Stanley Lombardo , a classical philologist and professor at the University of Kansas, and has one son.

Fonts

  • Introduction to Modern Set Theory . Wiley-Interscience, Wiley 1990, pdf
  • The Uses of Set Theory , Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1992, pp. 63-69
  • Beyond the Math Wars , in: Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education. MSRI Publications 36, Cambridge University Press 1999, pp. 123-134, pdf
  • with Stephen Addiss , Stanley Lombardo: Zen sourcebook: traditional documents from China, Korea, and Japan , Hackett Publishing 2008

Her collection of poems Slippage was published in 1999, No Face in 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judith Roitman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Career data American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Roitman, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roitman, Judy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City