L._Christine_Kinsey

L. Christine Kinsey

L. Christine Kinsey

American mathematician

Laura Christine Kinsey is an American mathematician specializing in topology. She is a professor of mathematics at Canisius College.[1]

Education

Kinsey graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975 with honors in mathematics.[2] She returned to the University of Maryland, College Park for graduate study, completing a Ph.D. there in 1984. Her dissertation, Pseudoisotopies and Submersions of a Compact Manifold to the Circle, was jointly supervised by Henry C. King and Walter Neumann.[3]

Books

Kinsey is the author of mathematics textbooks that include:

  • Topology of Surfaces (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 1993)[4]
  • Symmetry, Shape, and Space: An Introduction to Mathematics through Geometry (with Teresa Moore, Springer, 2002)[5]
  • Geometry and Symmetry (with Teresa Moore and Efstratios Prassidis, Wiley, 2010)[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "L. Christine Kinsey", Directory, Canisius College, 9 November 2016, retrieved 2020-02-22
  2. [2]
    Program: 175th Commencement, University of Maryland, College Park, 1975, pp. 27–28
  3. [3]
    L. Christine Kinsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. [4]
    Reviews of Topology of Surfaces:
  5. [5]
    Reviews of Symmetry, Shape, and Space:
  6. [6]
    "Mathematics & Physics round-up", Times Higher Education, May 26, 2011
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