Sarah Glaz

Sarah Glaz has moved from culture to culture and from language to language several times in her life. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she emigrated with her parents to Israel at age 11. After completing a Bachelor Degree in mathematics and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, she and her husband came to the United States as graduate students at Rutgers University. This was the site of two major events in Sarah's life: her son was born shortly after she passed the prelims, and she was introduced to...See more

Sarah Glaz has moved from culture to culture and from language to language several times in her life. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she emigrated with her parents to Israel at age 11. After completing a Bachelor Degree in mathematics and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, she and her husband came to the United States as graduate students at Rutgers University. This was the site of two major events in Sarah's life: her son was born shortly after she passed the prelims, and she was introduced to Commutative Ring Theory and completed a Ph.D. thesis in this area of mathematics. Sarah went on to a research and teaching career in mathematics, joining the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the University of Connecticut in 1989. By the time of her retirement in 2017, Sarah had authored or edited about ninety publications and received several grants and prestigious visiting positions. In 2007 she was elected a University Teaching Fellow. Sarah has written poetry in the languages of all the countries where she has lived: Romanian, Hebrew and English. She is not far from poetry even in the country of mathematics, where her area of research falls into the region of pure mathematics, which according to Einstein is the poetry of logical ideas. Sarah started writing poetry in English in 1991 and found, to her delight, that the mathematics which shaped her life found its way into her poetry. Since then, her poetry and translations from various languages have appeared in a number of literary and mathematical journals and in several anthologies. This is Sarah's first poetry collection. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts: http: //www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmaa20/current. She is also the organizer of mathematical poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences: http: //www.math.uconn.edu/ glaz/Mathematical_Poetry_at_Bridges/index.html. See less