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James Alexander

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32

Publications

3.7K

Citations

24

H-Index

1912

Active since

Affiliations

Princeton University(Current)

Bilkent University

Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay

Montclair State University

Institut de Biologie Valrose

James Alexander is an author at Princeton University specializing in geometry, discrete mathematics, and education.

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GeometryEducationDiscrete MathematicsPoliticsEngineeringSocial SciencesPolitical TheoryGraph TheoryPolitical BehaviorCombinatorial Optimization

Publications per year

1912–2016

32

Publications

32

Topological invariants of knots and links

James Alexander · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1928 · 701 citations

Topological Invariants, Topological Property, Knot Theory +1

A Lemma on Systems of Knotted Curves

James Alexander · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1923 · 486 citations · Full text

Knot Theory, Knotted Curves, Loop Space

Functions which Map the Interior of the Unit Circle Upon Simple Regions

James Alexander · Annals of Mathematics · 1915 · 446 citations

Function Theory, Geometry

On Types of Knotted Curves

James Alexander, G. B. Briggs · Annals of Mathematics · 1926 · 281 citations

Curve Modeling, Enumerative Geometry, Knotted Curves +1

The Combinatorial Theory of Complexes

James Alexander · Annals of Mathematics · 1930 · 267 citations

Enumerative Combinatorics, Algebraic Combinatorics, Topological Combinatorics +1

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