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Benson Stanley Farb (born October 25, 1967 in Norristown , Pennsylvania ) is an American mathematician who studies geometric group theory, algebra and low-dimensional topology.

He graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree and received his doctorate in 1994 from William Thurston at Princeton University ( Relatively hyperbolic and automatic groups with applications to negatively curved manifolds ). Farb is a professor at the University of Chicago .

From 1999 to 2004 he was the managing editor of Geometriae dedicata .

From 1999 to 2001 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 2014 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul (Representation Stability).

He has been married to mathematician Amie Wilkinson since 1996 .

Fonts

  • Problems on mapping class groups and related topics, Proc. Symp. Pure Appl. Math. 74, American Mathematical Society 2006
  • with RK Dennis: Noncommutative Algebra, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 144, Springer Verlag 1993
  • A primer on mapping class groups, Princeton University Press 2012
  • with Richard Evan Schwartz : The large-scale geometry of Hilbert modular groups. J. Differential Geom. 44 (1996) no. 3, 435-478.
  • Relatively hyperbolic groups. Geom. Funct. Anal. 8 (1998), no. 5, 810-840.
  • with Peter Shalen : Real-analytic actions of lattices. Invent. Math. 135 (1999), no. 2, 273-296.
  • with Lee Mosher : Quasi-isometric rigidity for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups. I .: Invent. Math. 131 (1998) no. 2, 419-451; II. Invent. Math. 137 (1999), no. 3, 613-649.
  • with Mosher: On the asymptotic geometry of abelian-by-cyclic groups. Acta Math. 184 (2000), no. 2, 145-202.
  • with Alexander Lubotzky , Yair Minsky : Rank-1 phenomena for mapping class groups. Duke Math. J. 106 (2001), no. 3, 581-597.
  • with Jeffrey Brock : Curvature and rank of Teichmüller space. Amer. J. Math. 128 (2006), no. 1, 1-22.
  • with Shmuel Weinberger : Isometries, rigidity and universal covers. Ann. of Math. (2) 168 (2008), no. 3, 915-940.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Marriage announcement, New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Color, Benson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farb, Benson Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Norristown , Pennsylvania