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Mary Ellen Rudin (Mary Ellen Estill) was born on 7 December, 1924 in Hillsboro, Texas, is an American mathematician (1924–2013). Discover Mary Ellen Rudin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 7 December 1924
Birthday 7 December
Birthplace Hillsboro, Texas
Date of death 2013
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Nationality United States

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1924

Mary Ellen Rudin (December 7, 1924 – March 18, 2013) was an American mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology.

1944

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.

Her graduate thesis presented a counterexample to one of "Moore's axioms".

1949

She completed her Ph.D. in 1949.

During her time as an undergraduate, she was a member of the Phi Mu Women's Fraternity, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society.

1953

In 1953, she married mathematician Walter Rudin, whom she met while teaching at Duke University.

They had four children.

At the beginning of her career, Rudin taught at Duke University and the University of Rochester.

1958

In 1958, she found an unshellable triangulation of the tetrahedron.

1959

She took a position as lecturer at the University of Wisconsin in 1959, and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in 1971.

1971

Most famously, Rudin was the first to construct a Dowker space, which she did in 1971, thus disproving a conjecture of Clifford Hugh Dowker that had stood, and helped drive topological research, for more than twenty years.

Her example fueled the search for "small" ZFC Dowker spaces.

She also proved the first Morita conjecture and a restricted version of the second.

Her last major result was a proof of Nikiel's conjecture.

Early proofs that every metric space is paracompact were somewhat involved, but Rudin provided an elementary one.

"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."

Rudin resided in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Rudin House, a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

1974

She was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974 in Vancouver.

1980

She served as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society, 1980–1981.

1984

In 1984 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer.

1991

After her retirement in 1991, she continued to serve as a Professor Emerita.

She was the first Grace Chisholm Young Professor of Mathematics and also held the Hilidale Professorship,.

1995

She was an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995).

2012

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Rudin is best known in topology for her constructions of counterexamples to well-known conjectures.

2013

In 2013, Elsevier established the Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award, which is awarded annually to a young researcher, mainly in fields adjacent to general topology.

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.

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.

She died aged 88 on March 18, 2013.

The Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award is an annual award given to young researchers in general topology and its related fields.

It was established in 2013 by Elsevier on behalf of the journal Topology and its Applications and consists of US$15,000 that must be used by the awardee in the following way: US$5,000 for three major conferences in topology, US$5,000 for visiting a research center, and US$5,000, which can be used freely and is regarded as a cash prize.

The prize was named after Mary Ellen Rudin, one of the most prominent topologists in the 20th century.

Mary Ellen gave her permission to use her name for the award but unfortunately passed away before the first prize was awarded.

She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.