Colin Rourke

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Colin P. Rourke (born January 1, 1943 ) is a British mathematician who studies geometric topology.

Rourke received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1963 and received his doctorate in Cambridge in 1966 with Erik Christopher Zeeman . In the same year he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1964 to 1967 he was assistant lecturer and then lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London . In 1967/68 he was at the Institute for Advanced Studies . From 1968 he was first a lecturer and then a reader at the University of Warwick , where he headed the mathematics faculty from 1992 to 1995. He has also taught at the Open University since 1976 , which resulted in several television-recorded lecture series. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison .

His compression set with Brian Sanderson from the late 1990s created a new approach to the differential topological theory of immersions of smooth manifolds by Stephen Smale and Morris Hirsch from the late 1950s. With Sanderson and Roger Fenn he gave a new classification of links (via the rack space ).

In 1986 he made headlines due to an ultimately unsuccessful attempt with Eduardo Rego (University of Oporto) to prove the Poincaré conjecture .

Jenny Harrison is one of his PhD students . He worked closely with Brian Sanderson and Roger Fenn in Warwick .

In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Block structures in geometric and algebraic topology).

From 1996 he was the founding editor of Geometry and Topology (with Robion Kirby , Brian Sanderson, John Jones) and he was the founding editor of Algebraic and Geometric Topology with Joan Birman and Haynes Miller .

He also dealt with cosmology, proposing a cosmological model without a big bang (the redshift is explained as the effect of the supermassive black holes in the galaxies). His model is potentially infinite in time and space, but he sees indications of a limited cosmos.

Rourke also said he had found evidence of forgeries in the images of the landing on the moon from the Apollo missions.

Fonts

  • with Sanderson: Introduction to piecewise-linear topology, Springer 1972, 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Rourke in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Rourke, Sanderson, The compression theorem, 3 parts, Geometry and Topology, Volume 5, 2001, 399-429, Arxiv , 431-440, Arxiv , Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Volume 3, 2003, 857-872, Arxiv
  3. ^ Fenn, Rourke, Sanderson, The rack space, Arxiv, 2003
  4. ↑ James Gleick, One of Math's major problems reported solved, New York Times, September 30, 1986
  5. ^ Rourke, A new paradigm for the universe, 2003, Arxiv
  6. ^ Hadley, a study in fakery, pdf , Aulis, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Rourke, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rourke, Colin P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1943