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    Robion Cromwell Kirby (born February 25, 1938) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in low-dimensional...
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  • In mathematics, the Kirby calculus in geometric topology, named after Robion Kirby, is a method for modifying framed links in the 3-sphere using a finite...
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  • is named after Robion Kirby and Larry Siebenmann, who developed the theory of topological and PL-manifolds. Hauptvermutung Kirby, Robion C.; Siebenmann...
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    work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists. Freedman was born in Los Angeles...
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  • folk music Robert Kirby (cartoonist) (born 1962), American cartoonist Robion Kirby (born 1938), American mathematician Roger Kirby (born 1950), British...
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  • and completed her doctorate in 2005 under the joint supervision of Robion Kirby and Peter Ozsváth. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University...
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  • dimension 4 by Quinn (1982), and in dimensions at least 5 by Kirby (1969). Robion Kirby's torus trick is a proof method employing an immersion of a punctured...
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  • are much harder in the topological category, requiring the theory of Robion Kirby and Laurent C. Siebenmann. The restriction to manifolds of dimension...
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  • Tribune Robert Kirby (cartoonist) (born 1962), American comics artist Robion Kirby (born 1938), American mathematician This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Series. 56 (1): 96–114. doi:10.2307/1969769. JSTOR 1969769. MR 0048805. Kirby, Robion C.; Siebenmann, Laurence C. (1977). Foundational Essays on Topological...
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  • Mathematics. 111 (1): 1–34. doi:10.2307/1971215. JSTOR 1971215. MR 0558395. Robion Kirby, Martin Scharlemann, Eight faces of the Poincaré homology 3-sphere. Geometric...
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    Meyerhoff, The maximal number of exceptional Dehn surgeries, arXiv:0808.1176 Robion Kirby, Problems in low-dimensional topology, (see problem 1.77, due to Cameron...
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    California, Berkeley in 1988 under the direction of Clifford Taubes and Robion Kirby. He joined the MIT mathematics faculty as professor in 1996, following...
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  • version of the triangulation obstruction of Robion Kirby and Laurent C. Siebenmann, obtained in 1970. The Kirby–Siebenmann obstruction is defined for any...
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    Raoul Bott 1966 Stephen Smale 1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur 1971 Robion Kirby 1971 Dennis Sullivan 1976 William Thurston 1976 James Harris Simons 1981...
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    Surfaces in a Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifold". arXiv:1012.2828 [math.GT]. Robion Kirby, Problems in low-dimensional topology Kahn, Jeremy; Markovic, Vladimir...
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    University of California, Berkeley in 1981 under the supervision of Robion Kirby. He joined the Davis faculty in 1988. In 2012 he became a fellow of the...
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  • University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 under the supervision of Robion Kirby.  From 1975 to 1978, he was an instructor at Princeton University. He...
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    the University of California, Berkeley under the joint supervision of Robion Kirby and Andrew Casson. He returned to Melbourne for two years as a research...
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    specializing in research in topology, and geometry and which is a student of Robion Kirby. Many sportspeople were born in Balıkesir. Some of them are; Caner Erkin...
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    ceremony in Oxford. Virtually Haken conjecture Ehrenpreis conjecture Robion Kirby, Problems in low-dimensional topology Kahn, J.; Markovic, V. (2012)....
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  • list of characters from the Kirby franchise, who are featured in video games and other media across the franchise. Kirby (カービィ, Kābī) is the protagonist...
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  • the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. See  genus and Rochlin's theorem. Robion Kirby (1989) gives a geometric proof. Since Rokhlin's theorem states that the...
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  • from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Robion Kirby (An invariant for Casson handles, disks and knot concordants). He is...
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    University of St Andrews Weisstein, Eric W. "Smale's Problems". MathWorld. Robion Kirby, Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier, a...
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    Chandrashekhar Khare Olga Kharlampovich Subhash Khot Clive W. Kilmister Robion Kirby Alexandre Kirillov Frances Kirwan Laszlo B. Kish Mark Kisin Steven Kleiman...
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  • topological invariance of the rational Pontryagin classes on smooth manifolds. Robion Kirby and Laurent C. Siebenmann's results, combined with René Thom's paper...
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    topology, in the University of California, Los Angeles, supervised by Robion Kirby. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics for 15 years and Assistant...
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    his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley as a student of Robion Kirby. In topology, he has worked on handlebody theory, low-dimensional manifolds...
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  • and its applications to Riemannian Geometry under the supervision of Robion Kirby (and Tomasz Mrowka). As a postdoctoral researcher he was at Michigan...
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