Ruth F. Curtain (16 July 1941 – 18 March 2018)[1] was an Australian mathematician who worked for many years in the Netherlands as a professor of mathematics at the University of Groningen.
[2] She was the daughter of a house painter, who wanted her to leave school at age 14, but with the support of her mother she persisted.
[2] She moved to Brown University, in the United States, for graduate study in applied mathematics, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1969.
Her dissertation, Stochastic Differential Equations In A Hilbert Space, was supervised by Peter Falb.
[8] In 2012 the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics gave Curtain their W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize for outstanding research in differential equations and control theory.