Robion Kirby
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Robion Cromwell Kirby is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in low-dimensional topology. He coinvented the Kirby-Siebenmann invariant for classifying the PL-structures on a topological manifold, in which his famous torus trick is fundamental, and proved the fundamental result on the Kirby calculus, a method for describing 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds by surgery on framed links.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
[edit] Books
- Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations. by Robion C. Kirby, Laurence C. Siebenmann ISBN 0-691-08191-3
- Topology of 4-Manifolds by Robion C. Kirby ISBN 0-387-51148-2
[edit] External links
- Kirby's home page.
- Kirby's list of problems in low dimensional topology. (This is a large 380 page gzipped ps file.)
- More about Kirby
- Robion Kirby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
