Joan Birman
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Joan S. Birman (born May 30, 1927) is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Columbia University's Barnard College.
She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1968 with a thesis on Braid groups and their relationship to mapping class groups. Her advisor was Wilhelm Magnus.
She is a leading topologist and one of the pioneers of braid theory, and the author of the influential book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups.
[edit] External Links
- Joan Birman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Homepage for Joan Birman
- Interview with Joan Birman (Notices of the AMS)
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