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 Ariyeh Neimark and adopted the name Ruth Lawrence-Neimark.
• 1999: Moved to Israel with Ariyeh Neimark, 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 Daan Krammer)

Publications

• 1990: Homological Representations of the Hecke Algebra

Also known as

Born Ruth Lawrence, she adopted her husband's name when marrying Ariyeh Neimark