American mathematician
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]
