Rachel Roberts is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology, including foliations and contact geometry. She is the Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.[1]
Roberts completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1992. Her dissertation, supervised by Allen Hatcher, was Constructing Taut Foliations.[2][3]
Publications
edit- Delman, Charles; Roberts, Rachel (1999). "Alternating knots satisfy strong property P". Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 74 (3): 376–397. doi:10.1007/s000140050095. MR 1710698.
- Roberts, Rachel; Shareshian, John; Stein, Melanie (2003). "Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 16 (3): 639–680. doi:10.1090/s0894-0347-03-00426-0. MR 1969207.
References
edit- ^ "Rachel Roberts", Our people, Washington University in St. Louis Arts & Sciences, retrieved 2019-11-02
- ^ Rachel Roberts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Constructing Taut Foliations MR page, American Mathematical Society, MR 2688244
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