Mary Ellen Rudin
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Mary Ellen Rudin (December 7, 1924 – March 18, 2013)
Early life and education
Mary Ellen (Estill) Rudin was born in Hillsboro, Texas to Joe Jefferson Estill and Irene (Shook) Estill. Her mother Irene was an English teacher before marriage, and her father Joe was a civil engineer. The family moved with her father's work, but spent a great deal of Mary Ellen's childhood around Leakey, Texas.[4] She had one sibling, a younger brother. Both of Rudin's maternal grandmothers had attended Mary Sharp College near their hometown of Winchester, Tennessee. Rudin remarks on this legacy and how much her family valued education in an interview.[4]
She attended the University of Texas, completing her B.A. in 1944 after just three years before moving into the graduate program in mathematics under Robert Lee Moore.[5] Her graduate thesis presented a counterexample to one of "Moore's axioms". She completed her Ph.D. in 1949.
During her time as an undergraduate, she was a member of the Phi Mu Women's Fraternity,[6] and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society.[7]
In 1953, she married mathematician Walter Rudin, whom she met while teaching at Duke University. They had four children.
Career
At the beginning of her career, Rudin taught at Duke University and the
She was an Invited Speaker of the
Rudin is best known in
"Reading the articles of Mary Ellen Rudin, studying them until there is no mystery takes hours and hours; but those hours are rewarded, the student obtains power to which few have access. They are not hard to read, they are just hard mathematics, that's all." (Steve Watson[16])
Later life
Rudin resided in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Rudin House, a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. She died aged 88 on March 18, 2013.
Publications
- Rudin, Mary Ellen (1975). Lectures on set theoretic topology (Rep. with corr. ed.). Providence: Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
- Rudin, Mary Ellen (1984). Dowker spaces (in the Handbook of set-theoretic topology). Amsterdam u.a.: North-Holland. pp. 761–780. ISBN 978-0444865809.
Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award
The Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award is an annual award given to young researchers in
The prize was named after Mary Ellen Rudin, one of the most prominent
List of awardees
Year | Name | Institution | Awarded at | Area of contribution |
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2019[20][21] | James Hyde | H.C. Wang Assistant Professor, Cornell University. | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, not formally awarded yet. | Homeomorphism groups |
2018[22][23] | Osvaldo Guzmán | Postdoc, University of Toronto. | 53rd Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference. The University of Alabama at Birmingham. March 14–16, 2019. | Almost disjoint families, set theory |
2017[24] | Balázs Strenner | Hale Visiting assistant professor, Georgia Tech. | 52nd Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA. March 15, 2018. | Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms |
2016[25][26] | Kathryn Mann | Morrey Visiting assistant professor at University of California at Berkeley. | 51st Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference. New Jersey City University. March 8–11, 2017. | Homeomorphism groups of manifolds |
2015[27][28] | Yinhe Peng | Postdoc, Chinese Academy of Sciences. | 1st Pan Pacific International Conference on Topology and Applications. Zhangzhou, China. November 25–30, 2015. | Base problem for topological spaces |
2014[29] | Yash Lodha | Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University. | 60 years of Dow conference. Cornell University. December 6–9, 2014. | Groups of homeomorphisms of low dimensional manifolds |
2013[30][31][32] | Logan C. Hoehn | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Mathematics, Nipissing University. | International Conference on Topology and Geometry. Shimane University, Matsue City, Japan. September 2013. | Solution of Lelek's problem |
Recognition
She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the
See also
References
- Topology and its Applications published by Elsevier. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ "Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award Fund". Elsevier. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ a b c Albers, D.J. and Reid, C. (1988) "An Interview with Mary Ellen Rudin". The College of Mathematics Journal 19(2) pp.114-137
- ^ Mary Ellen Rudin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Cactus Yearbook. Austin, TX: University of Texas. 1944. p. 394.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cactus Yearbook. Austin, TX: University of Texas. 1945. p. 141.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Mary Ellen Rudin", Profiles of Women in Mathematics. Association of Women in Mathematics [1]. Accessed March 13, 2015.
- ^ Rudin, Mary Ellen. "The Normality of Products." Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, 1974, vol. 1, pp. 81–86.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-07.
- MR 0097055.
- Zbl 0224.54019.
- .
- MR 1857669.
- MR 0236876.
- ^ W. S. Watson: Mary Ellen Rudin's early work on Suslin spaces, in: The work of Mary Ellen Rudin, (Madison, WI, 1991), 168–182, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 705, New York Acad. Sci., New York, 1993;
- ^ "Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award". ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. 2023-11-07. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ^ "Memories of Mary Ellen Rudin" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 62 (6): 619. June–July 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- Celebratio Mathematica. Mathematical Science Publishers. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ @@ElsevierMath (March 18, 2020). "Winner of 2019 Mary Ellen Rudin Award announced" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "53rd Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference". eScience Diversity Network. November 9, 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ @@ElsevierMath (March 19, 2019). "We are delighted to announce that Dr. Osvaldo Guzman is the recipient of the 2018 Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award Fund. We would like to congratulate Dr. Guzman on winning this prize" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference". The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "Balazs Strenner wins the Mary Ellen Rudin Award in Topology". Georgia Tech. March 7, 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "Kra and Mann to be Honored at the 2019 JMM". Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA. July 10, 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Kathryn Mann won 2016 Mary Ellen Rudin Award. Congratulations!". University of California at Berkeley. March 13, 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "News archive". National University of Singapore. December 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Congratulations Yinhe Peng, 2015 winner of MER Award". Topology and its Applications. Elsevier. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "2014 winner of the Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award". Topology and its Applications. Elsevier. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "Introducing NU's Research Achievement Award winners". No. January 19, 2016. Nipissing University. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Past Graduate Student Wins International Award". University of Toronto. February 27, 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- YouTube
- ^ "Mathematicians of EvenQuads Deck 1". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
Further reading
- Donald J. Albers;
External links
- Official website
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Mary Ellen Rudin", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- "Mary Ellen Rudin", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- Benkart, Georgia; Džamonja, Mirna; Roitman, Judith (June 2015), "Memories of Mary Ellen Rudin" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (6): 617–629, doi:10.1090/noti1254
- "Mary E. Rudin: "Set theory and General Topology"". YouTube. UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences. July 3, 2014.