Background
Crowell, Richard Henry was born on April 6, 1928 in Northeast, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Milton Frederick and Esther (Dary) Crowell.
( Hailed by the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Soc...)
Hailed by the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society as "a very welcome addition to the mathematical literature," this text is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Written by two internationally renowned mathematicians, its accessible treatment requires no previous knowledge of algebraic topology. Starting with basic definitions of knots and knot types, the text proceeds to examinations of fundamental and free groups. A survey of the historic foundation for the notion of group presentation is followed by a careful proof of the theorem of Tietze and several examples of its use. Subsequent chapters explore the calculation of fundamental groups, the presentation of a knot group, the free calculus and the elementary ideals, and the knot polynomials and their characteristic properties. The text concludes with three helpful appendixes and a guide to the literature.
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Crowell, Richard Henry was born on April 6, 1928 in Northeast, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Milton Frederick and Esther (Dary) Crowell.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1949; postgraduate, U. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1950-1951; Master of Arts, Princeton, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1955; Master of Arts (honorary), Dartmouth, 1968.
Research assistant, Princeton University, 1955-1956; lecturer, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1956-1958; assistant professor, Dartmouth College, 1958-1963; associate professor, Dartmouth College, 1963-1967; professor, Dartmouth College, 1967-1993; professor emeritus, Dartmouth College, since 1993; chairman mathematics department, Dartmouth College, 1973-1979; department chairman math and computer science, Dartmouth College, 1986-1989; professor emeritus, Dartmouth College, since 1993.
( Hailed by the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Soc...)
(book in great condition.)
Member American Mathematics Society, Math Association American, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marilyn Nelson, April 2, 1955. Children— Philip Nelson, Peter Dary.