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Joan Birman

American mathematician

Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman

Born (1927-05-30) May 30, 1927 (age 97)

New York City, New York

NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.A., Barnard College, 1948
Ph.D., Courant Institute (NYU), 1968
Known forBraid theory, knot theory
Awards
  • Chauvenet Prize
  • AAAS member
  • Sloan Fellow
  • Guggenheim Fellow
  • AMS Fellow
  • AWM Fellow
  • National Academy of Sciences member
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBarnard College, Columbia University, University of Haifa
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Magnus
Doctoral students
Websitehttp://www.math.columbia.edu/~jb/

Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927, in New York City[1]) 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 dynamical systems. Birman is