Snezana Lawrence

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Snezana Lawrence FIMA is a Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics, formerly a senior lecturer in mathematics and design engineering at Middlesex University. [1]

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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 author of

She 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. [10]

Recognition

Lawrence is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, for whom she was Diversity Champion 2019-2023 and is an elected council member. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Snezana Lawrence", Academic and research staff, Middlesex University, retrieved 2020-09-09
  2. ↑ Lawrence, Snezana, Diamond, Hanna (ed.), "Anka's Escape from Belgrade", Fleeing Hitler
  3. ↑ "About...", The Monge project, archived from the original on 2022-10-02
  4. ↑ Snezana Lawrence at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ 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, 21 (2), Informa {UK} Limited: 90–96, doi:10.1080/17498430600803375, S2CID   122851275
  6. ↑ Author profile from Mathematicians and their Gods
  7. ↑ ORCID profile , retrieved 2020-09-09
  8. ↑ Review of A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician:
  9. ↑ Reviews of A Little History of Mathematics:
  10. ↑ Reviews of Mathematicians and their Gods:
  11. ↑ "Snezana Lawrence", Mathematics Today Editorial Board, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, retrieved 2020-09-09
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