Joan Birman

Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman () adalah seorang matematikawan Amerika, yang mengkhususkan diri dalam teori braid dan teori ikatan. Bukunya, Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups, telah menjadi pengenalan standar, dengan beberapa peneliti masa sekarang mempelajari subyek tersebut melalui karya tersebut. Birman sekarang menjadi Research Professor Emerita di Barnard College, Columbia University, yang telah ia pegang sejak 1973.

Lihat pula 
 Algebra Birman–Wenzl
 Ruth Lyttle Satter

Referensi 

 Allyn Jackson and Lisa Traynor, "Interview with Joan Birman", AMS Notices, January 2007, Volume 54, Number 1

Pranala luar 
 Homepage for Joan Birman at Columbia University
 "Joan Birman", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
 
 Association for Women in Mathematics: In Her Own Words Six Mathematicians Comment on Their Lives and Careers, Reprinted with permission from Notices, Vol. 38, No. 7, Sept. 1991, pp. 702–706. "Joan S. Birman, Columbia University"
 Profiles of Women in Mathematics, The Emmy Noether Lectures, Presented by the Association for Women in Mathematics, "Joan S. Birman: Studying Links via Braids"
 Wai-Ting Lam . "The Charm of Topology - Dr. Joan Birman: Mathematics is very beautiful!", Association for Women in Mathematics
 

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