Mathematician:Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark

Mathematician
British-Israeli mathematician involved in research in knot theory and algebraic topology.

Famously a child prodigy who obtained her first-class degree at age $13$.

Nationality
British, now Israeli

History

 * Born: 2 August 1971 in Brighton, England
 * 1981: Passed the Oxford University entrance examination in mathematics
 * 1983: Joined St Hugh's College
 * 1985: Graduated with a starred first and special commendation
 * 1986: Bachelor's degree in physics
 * June 1989: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in mathematics at Oxford
 * 1990: Junior fellow at Harvard University
 * 1993: Moved to the University of Michigan
 * 1997: Became associate professor with tenure
 * 1998: Married and adopted the name Ruth Lawrence-Neimark.
 * 1999: Moved to Israel with, took up post of associate professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics
 * 2012: Became Fellow of American Mathematical Society

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lawrence-Krammer Representation (with )

Publications

 * 1990: Homological Representations of the Hecke Algebra

Also known as
Born Ruth Lawrence, she adopted her husband's name when marrying