Mary Schaps
Mary Schaps | |
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| Born | Mary Elizabeth Kramer August 6, 1948 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| 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 and Heisuke Hironaka |
Mary Elizabeth Schaps (
deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
. She is also a writer, authoring several novels under the pseudonym Rachel Pomerantz.
Early and personal life
Mary Elizabeth Kramer was born on August 6, 1948, in
majoring in mathematics, philosophy and history, and graduating summa cum laude in 1969.[4] She then attended Harvard University as a mathematics graduate student: she completed her Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1971 and her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1972.[4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Non-singular deformations of space curves, using determinantal schemes": her advisors were David Mumford and Heisuke Hironaka.[3]
She was brought up a
Presbyterian and then a Unitarian Universalism.[1] She became interested in Judaism, and formally converted to Conservative Judaism in college.[1][5] In 1968, she married David Schaps, a classics professor who was then also studying for a PhD at Harvard.[6][7] They both gradually felt more and more drawn to Orthodox Judaism and considered themselves Haredi by the time they had completed their doctorates.[1][5] The couple made aliyah (moved to Israel) in 1972.[2]
Together, she and her husband had two children: this was a small family by Haredi standards, and they raised four more
Career
Schaps had some teaching experience at Harvard University: she was
Professor Emeritus on retirement in 2016.[3]
Selected publications
- S2CID 123352636.
- Katz, Mikhail G.; Schaps, Mary; Vishne, Uzi. Logarithmic growth of systole of arithmetic Riemann surfaces along congruence subgroups. J. Differential Geom. 76 (2007), no. 3, 399–422.
- Schaps, Mary. Deformations of Cohen–Macaulay schemes of codimension 2 and non-singular deformations of space curves. Amer. J. Math. 99 (1977), no. 4, 669–685.
- Schaps, Mary; Zakay-Illouz, Evelyne. Combinatorial partial tilting complexes for the Brauer star algebras. Representations of algebras (São Paulo, 1999), 187–207, Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math., 224, Dekker, New York, 2002.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Emont, Jon (26 June 2014). "Israel's First Ultra-Orthodox Female Dean Paves the Way for Other Religious Women Studying Math and Science". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Malka Schaps Becomes First Female Haredi Dean at Israeli University". Haaretz. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "CURRICULUM VITAE - Malka Elisheva Schaps". Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Malka Schaps' Home Page - Curriculum Vitae". Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e WACHMANN, DOREEN (2016). "PROFILE: How Mary became Prof Malka - then Rachel". Jewish Telegraph. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ "Malka Schaps' Home Page - Family". Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ "Prof. David Schaps". Department of Classical Studies. Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ Bitton-Jackson, Prof Livia (29 November 2013). "Professor Malka Schaps: Ultra-Orthodox Dean". JewishPress.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
External links
- Prof. Malka Schaps Bar Ilan University
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