L. Christine Kinsey

Laura Christine Kinsey is an American mathematician specializing in topology. She is a professor of mathematics at Canisius College.[1]

Education

Kinsey graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975 with honors in mathematics.[2] She returned to the University of Maryland, College Park for graduate study, completing a Ph.D. there in 1984. Her dissertation, Pseudoisotopies and Submersions of a Compact Manifold to the Circle, was jointly supervised by Henry C. King and Walter Neumann.[3]

Books

Kinsey is the author of mathematics textbooks that include:

• Topology of Surfaces (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 1993)[4]
• Symmetry, Shape, and Space: An Introduction to Mathematics through Geometry (with Teresa Moore, Springer, 2002)[5]
• Geometry and Symmetry (with Teresa Moore and Efstratios Prassidis, Wiley, 2010)[6]

References

1. "L. Christine Kinsey", Directory, Canisius College, 9 November 2016, retrieved 2020-02-22
2. Program: 175th Commencement, University of Maryland, College Park, 1975, pp. 27–28
3. L. Christine Kinsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Reviews of Topology of Surfaces:
   • Vrabec, Jože, Mathematical Reviews, MR 1240053CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Repovš, D., zbMATH, Zbl 0794.54001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Reviews of Symmetry, Shape, and Space:
   • Havlicek, Hans, zbMATH, Zbl 0974.00002CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Leversha, Gerry (March 2002), The Mathematical Gazette, 86 (505): 165–166, doi:10.2307/3621616, JSTOR 3621616CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. "Mathematics & Physics round-up", Times Higher Education, May 26, 2011