Robert F. Craggs

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2975

e-mail - craggs@math.uiuc.edu

General Information

A.B. Ohio University, 1959
M.S. University of Wisconsin, 1960
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1966.

Areas of Interest

Geometric topology, combinatorial group theory.

Selected Papers

• On the algebra of handle operations in 4-manifolds, Topology and its App. 30(1988), 237-252.
• Freely reducing group readings for 2-complexes in 4-manifolds. Topology 28(1989), 247-271.
• Links in 3-manifolds as obstructions in free reduction problems. Topology and its App. 49(1993), 15-53.
• Ribbon disks, slice disks, lifting maps, and questions of asphericity. Manuscript available on request.

PhD Students

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