Ruth Lawrence

Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence, Berkeley 1991
Born	(1971-08-02) 2 August 1971 (age 53) 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.