Frank Quinn

Frank Quinn is a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech, with seminal contributions to the mathematical field of 4-manifolds, including a proof of the 4-dimensional annulus theorem. A pioneer of the use of controlled methodsin the surgery theory of higher-dimensional manifolds.

elected publications

*Frank Quinn, "Ends of maps. I." Ann. of Math. (2) 110 (1979), no. 2, 275--331.
*Frank Quinn, "Ends of maps. II." Invent. Math. 68 (1982), no. 3, 353--424.
*Frank Quinn, "Ends of maps. III." Dimensions 4 and 5. J. Differential Geom. 17 (1982), no. 3, 503--521.
*Michael Freedman and Frank Quinn, "Topology of 4-manifolds." Princeton Mathematical Series, 39. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. viii+259 pp. ISBN 0-691-08577-3
*Vyacheslav S. Krushkal and Frank Quinn, "Subexponential groups in 4-manifold topology." Geom. Topol. 4 (2000), 407--430.

External links

* [http://www.math.vt.edu/people/quinn/ Home page]
* [http://www.ams.org/bull/1993-29-01/S0273-0979-1993-00413-0/S0273-0979-1993-00413-0.pdf/ Jaffe-Quinn]
* [http://amstechnicalcareers.wikidot.com/ AMS K-12 education Working Group]