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
Academic advisor: Wilhelm Magnus
Partner: Joseph L. Birman
Books
Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups
1974
Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups. (AM-82), Volume 82
2016
One-sided Heegaard Splittings and Homeotopy Groups of Some 3-manifolds
1984
Knots, Braids, and Mapping Class Groups--papers Dedicated to Joan S. Birman: Proceedings of a Conference on Low Dimensional Topology in Honor of Joan S. Birman's 70th Birthday, March 14-15, 1998, Columbia University, New York, New York
2001