Joan Birman
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 97 |
Date of birth | May 30,1927 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Known for | Braid group |
Knot theory | |
Braid theory, knot theory | |
Books | Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups |
Current partner | Joseph L. Birman |
Academic advisor | Wilhelm Magnus |
Awards | Noether Lecture |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
Chauvenet Prize | |
Education | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library |
Doctor student | Tara E. Brendle |
Efstratia Kalfagianni | |
Józef H. Przytycki | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 737318 |
Joan Birman Life story
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to the study of knots, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces, geometric group theory, contact structures and dynamical systems.