Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence | |
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רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק | |
Ruth Lawrence, Berkeley 1991 | |
| Born | 2 August 1971 Brighton, England |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
| Known for | Being a child prodigy Lawrence–Krammer representation |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Topology, knot theory |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Homology representations of braid groups (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah |
Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק; born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. In the public eye, she is best known for having been a child prodigy in mathematics.