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James M. Kister,

an American mathematician, topologist, and professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under advisor R. H. Bing on isotopies in manifolds [1]. The Kister Isotopy was an important contribution to the theory of higher dimensional topology.

Selected Publications#

• James Kister, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam, William Walden, Mark Wells (1957). Experiments in Chess. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 2
• James Kister (1959). Small isotopies in Euclidean spaces and 3-manifolds. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, pp.371-37
• James Kister (1959). Isotopies in Manifolds. Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, advisor R. H. Bing, Isotopies in 3-Manifolds as pdf

External Links#

• James M. Kister | U-M LSA Mathematics
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister

References#

1. ↑ The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister

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