Joan Birman
Joan Sylvia Birman née Lyttle (1927 - ) American mathematician and educator. Considered one of the pioneers of braid theory, she has published extensively on the topic. Now a professor emeritus at Columbia University, she has won several awards since 1974, such as the Chauvenet Prize in 1996. Birman currently has a National Science Foundation grant to further research braids.
Birman has Erdős number (http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber) 3: she co-authored “Abelian
and solvable subgroups
of mapping class groups of surfaces” in Duke Math. J. 50 No. 4 with Alex Lubotzky, who co-authored “Discrete groups of slow subgroup growth” in Israel J. Math. 96 with László Pyber, who co-authored “Isomorphic
subgraphs
in a graph” in Colloquium Math. Soc. János Bolyai 52 with Erdős.
| Title | Joan Birman |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | JoanBirman |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:41:47 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:41:47 |
| Owner | Mravinci (12996) |
| Last modified by | Mravinci (12996) |
| Numerical id | 6 |
| Author | Mravinci (12996) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A65 |
| Classification | msc 01A61 |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Synonym | Joan Lyttle |
| Synonym | Joan Sylvia Birman |
| Synonym | Joan Sylvia Lyttle |