Sarah Glaz
Sarah Glaz is a mathematician and mathematical poet. Her research specialty is commutative algebra; she is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Connecticut.
Education and career
Glaz was born in Bucharest, Romania, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She came to the US for her graduate education in mathematics, completing a Ph.D. in 1977 at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, Finiteness and Differential Properties of Ideals, was supervised by Wolmer Vasconcelos.After postdoctoral research at Case [Western Reserve University], Glaz became an assistant professor at Wesleyan University in 1980. She moved to George Mason University in 1988, and again to the University of Connecticut in 1989. She retired as a professor emeritus in 2017.
Books
Glaz is the author of a book on commutative algebra, Commutative Coherent Rings. She is an editor of several other books on commutative algebra.In 2017 she published a book of her mathematical poetry named after a poem by Pablo Neruda, Ode to Numbers. Her book was a finalist for the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
She is also the editor of an anthology of mathematical poems, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics,
and has published translations of poems into English from
Romanian, Portuguese, German, Sanskrit, Sumerian, and Russian.