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Joan Birman

U.S. mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1927 · age 99

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 dynamical systems.

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2020Fellow of the Association for Women in MathematicsAward2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2012Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward1996Chauvenet PrizeAward1994Guggenheim FellowshipAwardSloan FellowshipAward1927Born30 May 1927

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