Joan Birman
Mathematician, Award Winner
1927 –
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Who is Joan Birman?
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in braid theory and knot theory. Her book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups has become a standard introduction, with many of today's researchers having learned the subject through it. Birman is currently Research Professor Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been since 1973.
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- Born
- May 30, 1927
New York City - Also known as
- Joan S. Birman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics
( - 1968) - Master of Arts, Columbia University
Physics
( - 1950) - Bachelor of Arts, Barnard College
Mathematics
( - 1948)
- PhD, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- New Rochelle
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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