Mary Schaps | |
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| Born | Mary Elizabeth Kramer August 6, 1948 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Swarthmore College Harvard University |
| Spouse |
David Schaps (m. 1968) |
| Children | Two |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical mathematics |
| Thesis | Non-singular deformations of space curves, using determinantal schemes (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Mumford Heisuke Hironaka |
Mary Elizabeth Schaps (Hebrew: מלכה אלישבע שפס; born August 6, 1948), also known as Malka Elisheva Schaps, is an Israeli-American mathematician. She is Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar Ilan University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has published in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory. She is also a writer, authoring several novels under the pseudonym Rachel Pomerantz.