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Allen Hatcher

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Publications

36

Citations

2.6K

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24

Active since

1972

Affiliations

Cornell University(Current)

University of California, Los Angeles

Princeton University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Allen Hatcher is an author at Cornell University specializing in geometry, computer-aided design, and geometric modeling.

Top concepts

GeometryComputer-aided DesignEngineeringGeometry ModelingGeometric Group TheoryEducationNatural SciencesDiscrete GeometryRepresentation TheoryComputational Geometry

Publications per year

1972–2025

36

Publications

36

Incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge knot complements

Allen Hatcher, William P. Thurston · Inventiones mathematicae · 1985 · 332 citations

Incompressible Surfaces, Enumerative Geometry, Knot Theory +1

A presentation for the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface

Allen Hatcher, William P. Thurston · Topology · 1980 · 319 citations

Geometric Group Theory, Global Geometry, Lie Group +7

A Proof of the Smale Conjecture, Diff(S 3 ) ≃O(4)

Allen Hatcher · Annals of Mathematics · 1983 · 218 citations

Geometry Of Number, Lie Group, Cw Topology +7

On triangulations of surfaces

Allen Hatcher · Topology and its Applications · 1991 · 178 citations

Homological stability for automorphism groups of free groups

Allen Hatcher · Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici · 1995 · 142 citations

Coxeter Group, Representation Theory, Homological Stability +9

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