B.A., Barnard College, 1948
Ph.D., Courant Institute (NYU), 1968
Known for
Braid theory, knot theory
Awards
Chauvenet Prize
AAAS member
Sloan Fellow
Guggenheim Fellow
AMS Fellow
AWM Fellow
National Academy of Sciences member
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Haifa
Doctoral advisor
Wilhelm Magnus
Doctoral students
Tara E. Brendle
Efstratia Kalfagianni
Józef H. Przytycki
Website
http://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 research professor emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University,[2] where she has been since 1973.
^Larry Riddle. "Joan S. Birman", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, at Agnes Scott College
^"Home Page for Joan S. Birman". www.math.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927, in New York City) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions...
smoothness of soap-film triple function curves. 1974: American mathematician JoanBirman published the book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups. It has become...
about length and smoothness of soap-film triple function curves. 1974: JoanBirman published the book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups. It has become...
definition of finite type invariant due to Goussarov, and (independently) JoanBirman and Xiao-Song Lin. Let V be a knot invariant. Define V1 to be defined...
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heading "miscellaneous theorems", which is possibly why it got lost. JoanBirman mentions in her paper that Mark Kidwell brought her attention to Alexander's...
American Mathematical Society, commenting on the New Yorker article, JoanBirman asserts that the mathematical profession has taken a "very public and...
Borwein and Peter B. Borwein 1994 Barry Mazur 1995 Donald G. Saari 1996 JoanBirman 1997 Tom Hawkins 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan 1999 Michael I. Rosen...
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recursive arguments in the study of mapping class groups. It was proven by JoanBirman in 1969. The exact statement is as follows. Let S {\displaystyle S} be...
theorist Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer JoanBirman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist Laure Blanc-Féraud (born...
previous six years. The award was funded in 1990 using a donation from JoanBirman, in memory of her sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter, who worked primarily in...
Jill Tarter Jing Li (chemist) Joan A. Steitz Joan Beauchamp Procter JoanBirmanJoan Dingley Joan Hinton Joan Roughgarden Joan Slonczewski Joanna S. Fowler...
Biran (born 1969), symplectic and algebraic geometry; Erdős Prize (2006) JoanBirman (born 1927), topology Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (1903–2000), functional...
(1985), professor of African American studies at Northwestern University JoanBirman (1948), mathematician and winner of the Chauvenet Prize Hazel Bishop...
Finite Type Invariants for Knots in 3-Manifolds, was supervised by JoanBirman and Xiao-Song Lin. After postdoctoral study at the Institute for Advanced...
differential geometry and was most recently awarded the 2020-2021 Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars by the American Mathematical Society...
coauthors with whom she published in this area include Linda Keen and JoanBirman. Series became the third woman to be president of the London Mathematical...
Serafima Germanovna Birman (Russian: Серафима Германовна Бирман; 10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1890 – 11 May 1976) was a Soviet and Russian actress, theatre...
of New York, before retiring in 1978. Among his doctoral students are JoanBirman, Martin Greendlinger, Edna Grossman, Herbert Keller, Seymour Lipschutz...
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