Rachel Roberts (mathematician)

{{short description|American mathematician}}

Rachel Roberts is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology, including foliations and contact geometry. She is the Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.{{r|wustl}}

Roberts completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1992. Her dissertation, supervised by Allen Hatcher, was Constructing Taut Foliations.{{r|mg|cmd}}

Publications

  • {{cite journal | last=Delman | first=Charles | last2=Roberts | first2=Rachel | title=Alternating knots satisfy strong property P | journal=Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici | volume=74 | issue=3 | year=1999 | doi=10.1007/s000140050095 | pages=376–397 | mr=1710698| doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal | title=Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation|last=Roberts | first=Rachel | last2=Shareshian | first2=John | last3=Stein | first3=Melanie | journal=Journal of the American Mathematical Society | volume=16 | issue=3 | year=2003 | doi=10.1090/s0894-0347-03-00426-0 | pages=639–680 | mr=1969207| doi-access=free }}

References

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{{citation|title=Constructing Taut Foliations MR page|publisher=American Mathematical Society|mr = 2688244}}

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