Mary Ellen Rudin
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Mary Ellen Rudin (born December 7, 1924, Hillsboro, Texas) is an American mathematician.
Born Mary Ellen Estill, she attended the University of Texas, completing her B.A. in 1944 and her Ph.D. in 1949, under Robert Lee Moore.[1] In 1953, she married the mathematician Walter Rudin. Following her mentor Moore, her research centers on point-set topology. She was appointed as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in 1971, and is currently a Professor Emerita there. She served as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society, 1980–1981. in 1984 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer.
Rudin is best known in topology for her constructions of counterexamples to well-known conjectures. Most famously, she was the first to construct a Dowker space, thus disproving a conjecture of Dowker's that had stood, and helped drive topological research, for more than twenty years. She also proved the first Morita conjecture and a restricted version of the second[2].
[edit] References
- ^ Mary Ellen Rudin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ K. Chiba, T.C. Przymusiński, M.E. Rudin, "Normality of products and Morita's conjectures" Topol. Appl. 22 (1986) 19–32
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Mary Ellen Rudin”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Mary Ellen Rudin at the Biographies of Women Mathematicians Web Site, written by Shannon Carr.
