David Epstein
David Bernard Alper Epstein (* 1937 ) is a British mathematician who studies geometry and group theory.
Life
Epstein received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1960 with Erik Christopher Zeeman ( Three Dimensional Manifolds ). With Zeeman, he helped found the University of Warwick's math faculty in the 1960s. Today he is Professor Emeritus in Warwick.
He deals with hyperbolic geometry, scrolling (where he solved a long open problem about one-dimensional scrolling), geometry of three-dimensional manifolds and group theory (theory of automatic groups , with James W. Cannon , Derek Holt).
He is also involved in the use of computers in geometry and is a co-founder of the Geometry Supercomputing Project (Geometry Center) at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis . In 1992 he was the founder and editor of the journal Experimental Mathematics with Silvio Levy and Klaus Peters .
In the 2000s, he also did research on diabetes .
In 1988 he received the Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society . In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Steenrod operations in abelian categories ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
He should not be confused with the computer scientist and mathematician David Eppstein .
Brian Bowditch is one of his PhD students .
See also
Fonts
- Curves on 2-manifolds and isotopies. Acta Math. 115 1966 83-107
- Periodic flows on three manifolds. Ann. of Math. (2) 95 1972 66-82.
- with E. Vogt: A counterexample to the periodic orbit conjecture in codimension 3rd Ann. of Math. (2) 108 (1978) no. 3, 539-552.
- with A. Marden : Convex hulls in hyperbolic space, a theorem of Sullivan, and measured pleated surfaces. Analytical and geometric aspects of hyperbolic space (Coventry / Durham, 1984), 113-253, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 111, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1987.
- with Richard Canary , P. Green: Notes on notes of Thurston. Analytical and geometric aspects of hyperbolic space (Coventry / Durham, 1984), 3-92, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 111, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1987.
- with R. Penner: Euclidean decompositions of noncompact hyperbolic manifolds. J. Differential Geom. 27 (1988) no. 1, 67-80.
- with James Cannon, Derek Holt, Silvio Levy, Michael Paterson, William Thurston : Word Processing in Groups, Boston, Jones and Bartlett 1992
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Warwick
- Laudation on the occasion of the appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Epstein in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Epstein, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Epstein, David Bernard Alper |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |