Frank Quinn

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Frank Quinn is a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech, with seminal contributions to the mathematical field of 4-manifolds, including a proof of the 4-dimensional annulus theorem. A pioneer of the use of controlled methods in the surgery theory of higher-dimensional manifolds.

[edit] Selected publications

• Frank Quinn, Ends of maps. I. Ann. of Math. (2) 110 (1979), no. 2, 275--331.
• Frank Quinn, Ends of maps. II. Invent. Math. 68 (1982), no. 3, 353--424.
• Frank Quinn, Ends of maps. III. Dimensions 4 and 5. J. Differential Geom. 17 (1982), no. 3, 503--521.
• Michael Freedman and Frank Quinn, Topology of 4-manifolds. Princeton Mathematical Series, 39. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. viii+259 pp. ISBN 0-691-08577-3
• Vyacheslav S. Krushkal and Frank Quinn, Subexponential groups in 4-manifold topology. Geom. Topol. 4 (2000), 407--430.

[edit] External links

• Home page
• Jaffe-Quinn
• AMS K-12 education Working Group