Mathematician:Mary Ellen Rudin

Mathematician

American topologist best known for creating counterexamples to conjectures in point-set topology, and especially for being the first person to construct a Dowker Space, disproving a long-standing conjecture.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 7 Dec 1924 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA
• 1941: Entered University of Texas
• 1944: Graduated with B.A.
• 1949: Received Ph.D., began teaching at Duke University
• 1953: Married Walter Rudin
• 1953 - 1958: Part time Associate Professorship at University of Rochester
• 1959 - 1971: Temporary part time Lecturer in Mathematics at University of Wisconsin (Madison)
• 1963: Awarded prize of Nieuwe Archief voor Wiskunk by the Mathematical Society of the Netherlands
• 1971: Promoted to full professor
• Died: 18 Mar 2013

Publications

• 1950: Concerning Abstract Spaces
• 1951: Separation in Non-Separable Spaces
• 1952: A Primitive Dispersion Set of the Plane
• 1952: Concerning a Problem of Souslin's
• 1955: Countable Paracompactness and Souslin's Problem
• 1969: A New Proof that Metric Spaces are Paracompact (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 20: p. 603)  www.jstor.org/stable/2035708
• 1971: A Normal Space $X$ for which $X \times I$ is not Normal

Also known as

Born Mary Ellen Estill, under which name she published several papers before her marriage.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Mary Ellen Rudin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive