Joan Birman
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to the study of knots, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces, geometric group theory, contact structures and dynamical systems. Birman is research professor emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been since 1973. Joan Birman, American mathematician
30 May 1927
Born on the same birth date (30 May 1927): Billy Wilson (Australian rugby league) • Clint Walker
Born on the same birth day (30 May): Agnès Varda • Ahmad Elrich • Andrea Montermini • Bertrand Delanoë • Big L • Carole Stone • Clint Walker • Emperor Renzong of Song • Fernando Amorsolo • Freddie Frith • Hannes Alfvén • Igor Kurnosov • Jason Kenney • Johnny Gimble • Lars Møller Madsen • Mark Birley • Meredith MacRae • Mike Bishai • Paul Grayson (rugby union) • Randy Ferbey • Rasho Nesterović • Shin Ha-kyun • Troy Coker • Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Born in the same month (May 1927): Bernard Fox (actor) • Bud Grant • Clint Walker • Franciszek Macharski • Gene Savoy • George Andrew Olah • Herbert W. Franke • Jean Coutu (pharmacist) • Jüri Randviir • Laura Betti • Michael Broadbent • Michael Constantine • Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg • Peter Matthiessen • Péter Zwack • Richard Body • Robert Ludlum • Serge Lang