Ruth Lawrence
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Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (born August 2, 1971 in Huddersfield , Great Britain , maiden name Lawrence ) is a former child prodigy and professor of mathematics .
She is from England, both parents were computer consultants. Her giftedness was so strong that her father Harry had to quit his job to teach her - she never went to school.
At the age of eight, Lawrence-Neimark took the O-Level in mathematics, which roughly corresponds to the secondary school leaving certificate, at nine the mathematics A-Level (grade: grade A), for example high school knowledge.
In 1981 she was the youngest to pass the University of Oxford entrance exams and was the best of 530 applicants at St Hugh's College . Within two years she did her bachelor's degree with distinction. Her father accompanied her to the lectures. In 1986 she also graduated in physics , in 1989 she received her doctorate in mathematics from Michael Atiyah on homology representations of braid groups .
A representation of the braid groups ( Lawrence-Krammer representation ) is named after her.
In 1990 she became a junior fellow at Harvard at the age of 19 , and in 1993 she went to the University of Michigan . From 1995 to 1999 she was a Sloan Research Fellow .
In 1998 she married the Israeli mathematician Ariyeh Neimark and has been teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1999 . She and her husband have two children, Yehuda Bezalel (* 2000) and Sarah Miriam (* 2001).
Web links
- Homepage
- BBC report 1985
- Ruth Lawrence: Curriculum Vitae. Hebrew University, accessed August 16, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Lawrence in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lawrence, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawrence-Neimark, Ruth Elke (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician, professor of mathematics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huddersfield |