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Mary Schaps
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of mathematics and dean of the faculty of exact sciences at bar ilan university”. Today it says “israeli-american mathematician”.
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Mary Elizabeth Schaps ( Hebrew : מלכה אלישבע שפס ; born August 6, 1948), also known as Malka Elisheva Schaps , is an Israeli-American mathematician. She is Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar Ilan University . She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University , and has published in deformation theory , group theory , and representation theory . She is also a writer, authoring several novels under the pseudonym Rachel Pomerantz .
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professor of mathematics and dean of the faculty of exact sciences at bar ilan university
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israeli-american mathematician
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