Joan Birman
American mathematician
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to the study of knots, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces, geometric group theory, contact structures and... Wikipedia
Born: 1927 (age 96 years), New York, NY
Education: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1961–1968), New York University (1968), Columbia University (1950), and more
Partner: Joseph L. Birman
Academic advisor: Wilhelm Magnus