Snezana Lawrence
Snezana Lawrence is a Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics, formerly a senior lecturer in mathematics and design engineering at Middlesex University.
Education and career
Lawrence is originally from Yugoslavia, of mixed Serbian and Jewish ancestry. 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. 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.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.
Subsequently, Lawrence moved to post-secondary education, including work as a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University, Anglia Ruskin University, and Middlesex University.
Books
Lawrence is the author of- A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician, on the nature of mathematics and the definition of mathematicians,
- Mathematical Meditations, and
- A Little History of Mathematics.