Ruth Lawrence

Ruth Elke Lawrence - Neimark ( born August 2, 1971 in Huddersfield, United Kingdom, maiden name Lawrence ) is a former child prodigy, and Professor of Mathematics.

She is from England, both parents were computer consultant. Your giftedness was so strong that her father Harry had to give up his job to teach them - they never went to school.

At the age of eight years, Lawrence Neimark made ​​the O -level mathematics, which correspond approximately to the average maturity, with nine mathematics A-level (Grade: grade A), about Abiturwissen.

In 1981, she was the youngest, was the entrance exam at the University of Oxford, she was best of 530 applicants at St Hugh 's College. Within two years, she received her Bachelor with honors. Her father accompanied her to the lectures. In 1986 she graduated as well as in physics, 1989, she was with Michael Atiyah doctorate in mathematics Homology representations of braid groups.

In 1990, she was charged with 19 junior fellow at Harvard, 1993, she went to the University of Michigan.

In 1998 she married the Israeli mathematician Aryeh Neimark and taught since 1999 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has two children with her husband, Yehuda Bezalel ( * 2000 ) and Sarah Miriam (* 2001).

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