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'''James M. Kister''',<br/>
an American mathematician, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology topologist], and professor emeritus of mathematics at [[University of Michigan]]. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison], under advisor [[Mathematician#RHBing|R. H. Bing]] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy#Isotopy isotopies] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold manifolds] <ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=668 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister]</ref>. The ''Kister Isotopy'' was an important contribution to the theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_topology#High-dimensional_geometric_topology higher dimensional topology].
=MANIAC I=
As a research assistant at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] from 1953-56, James Kister worked with some of the earliest electronic computers on a variety of scientific projects, including, with several others, the design of a [[MANIAC I|program]] for a computer to play [[Los Alamos Chess]].
=Selected Publications=
* [[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2
* [[James Kister]] ('''1959'''). ''Small isotopies in Euclidean spaces and 3-manifolds''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society], Vol. 65, pp.371-37
* [[James Kister]] ('''1959'''). ''Isotopies in Manifolds''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison], advisor [[Mathematician#RHBing|R. H. Bing]], [http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1960-097-02/S0002-9947-1960-0120628-5/S0002-9947-1960-0120628-5.pdf Isotopies in 3-Manifolds as pdf]
=External Links=
* [https://lsa.umich.edu/math/people/emeritus-faculty/kister.html James M. Kister | U-M LSA Mathematics]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=668 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister]
=References=
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'''James M. Kister''',<br/>
an American mathematician, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology topologist], and professor emeritus of mathematics at [[University of Michigan]]. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison], under advisor [[Mathematician#RHBing|R. H. Bing]] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy#Isotopy isotopies] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold manifolds] <ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=668 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister]</ref>. The ''Kister Isotopy'' was an important contribution to the theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_topology#High-dimensional_geometric_topology higher dimensional topology].
=MANIAC I=
As a research assistant at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] from 1953-56, James Kister worked with some of the earliest electronic computers on a variety of scientific projects, including, with several others, the design of a [[MANIAC I|program]] for a computer to play [[Los Alamos Chess]].
=Selected Publications=
* [[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2
* [[James Kister]] ('''1959'''). ''Small isotopies in Euclidean spaces and 3-manifolds''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society], Vol. 65, pp.371-37
* [[James Kister]] ('''1959'''). ''Isotopies in Manifolds''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison], advisor [[Mathematician#RHBing|R. H. Bing]], [http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1960-097-02/S0002-9947-1960-0120628-5/S0002-9947-1960-0120628-5.pdf Isotopies in 3-Manifolds as pdf]
=External Links=
* [https://lsa.umich.edu/math/people/emeritus-faculty/kister.html James M. Kister | U-M LSA Mathematics]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=668 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister]
=References=
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