Biography:Snezana Lawrence
Snezana Lawrence FIMA is a Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics and a senior lecturer in mathematics and design engineering at Middlesex University.[1]
Education and career
Lawrence is originally from Yugoslavia, of mixed Serbian and Jewish ancestry.[2] She studied descriptive geometry at the University of Belgrade before moving to England in 1991 during the Breakup of Yugoslavia and ensuing Yugoslav Wars, and later becoming a naturalized British citizen.[3] She earned her PhD from the Open University in 2002. Her dissertation, Geometry of Architecture and Freemasonry in 19th Century England, was supervised by Jeremy Gray.[4]
While working as a secondary school teacher at St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover in 2004–2005, she won a Gatsby Teacher Fellowship in Mathematics, with which she started a popular web site "Maths is Good For You". The site had the aim of providing a resource to bring more work on the history of mathematics into the secondary school curriculum.[5]
Subsequently, Lawrence moved to post-secondary education, including work as a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University,[6] Anglia Ruskin University,[7] and Middlesex University.[1]
Books
Lawrence is the co-editor, with Irish mathematician Mark McCartney, of the book Mathematicians and their Gods: Interactions between mathematics and religious beliefs (Oxford University Press, 2015), on connections between mathematics and religion.[8] She is the author of A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician (Chapman Hall / CRC Press, 2019), on the nature of mathematics and the definition of mathematicians.[9]
Recognition
Lawrence is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, for whom she is Diversity Champion and an elected council member.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dr Snezana Lawrence", Academic and research staff (Middlesex University), https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/lawrence-snezana, retrieved 2020-09-09
- ↑ Lawrence, Snezana, Diamond, Hanna, ed., "Anka's Escape from Belgrade", Fleeing Hitler, http://www.fleeinghitler.org/story/ankas-escape-from-belgrade/
- ↑ "About...", The Monge project, https://themongeproject.online/about, retrieved 2020-09-09
- ↑ Snezana Lawrence at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Lawrence, Snezana (July 2006), "Maths is good for you: web-based history of mathematics resources for young mathematicians (and their teachers)", BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Informa {UK} Limited) 21 (2): 90–96, doi:10.1080/17498430600803375
- ↑ Author profile from Mathematicians and their Gods
- ↑ ORCID profile, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-9320, retrieved 2020-09-09
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematicians and their Gods:
- Luciano, Erika, "none", zbMATH
- Bultheel, Adhemar (September 2015), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society, https://euro-math-soc.eu/review/mathematicians-and-their-gods
- Sawyer, Megan (November 2015), "Review", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematicians-and-their-gods
- Toller, Owen (June 2016), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 100 (548): 368–370, doi:10.1017/mag.2016.86
- Whiteman, Jamie A. (August 2016), "For your information", The Mathematics Teacher 110 (1): 79, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.110.1.0078
- Muntersbjorn, Madeline (September 2016), "none", HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago Press) 6 (2): 333–336, doi:10.1086/687777
- Howell, Russell W. (August 2018), "none", Historia Mathematica 45 (3): 300–302, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2018.06.002
- ↑ Review of A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician:
- Caulfield, Michael (August 2020), "Review", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/a-new-year-s-present-from-a-mathematician
- ↑ "Snezana Lawrence", Mathematics Today Editorial Board (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications), https://ima.org.uk/team-profile/snezana-lawrence/, retrieved 2020-09-09
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