Biography:L. Christine Kinsey

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Short description: 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. "L. Christine Kinsey", Directory (Canisius College), 9 November 2016, https://www.canisius.edu/academics/our-schools/college-arts-sciences/directory/l-christine-kinsey, retrieved 2020-02-22 
  2. Program: 175th Commencement, University of Maryland, College Park, 1975, pp. 27–28, https://archive.org/details/commencementdec1975univ/page/26/mode/2up 
  3. L. Christine Kinsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Reviews of Topology of Surfaces:
    • Vrabec, Jože, "none", Mathematical Reviews 
    • Repovš, D., "none", zbMATH 
  5. Reviews of Symmetry, Shape, and Space:
    • Havlicek, Hans, "none", zbMATH 
    • Leversha, Gerry (March 2002), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 86 (505): 165–166, doi:10.2307/3621616 
  6. "Mathematics & Physics round-up", Times Higher Education, May 26, 2011, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mathematics-and-physics-round-up/416319.article