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

Education

Kinsey graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975 with honors in mathematics. 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.

Books

Kinsey is the author of mathematics textbooks that include:

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