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and hyperbolic 3-manifolds in general. He developed techniques for working with volumes of special classes of hyperbolic links. He proved augmented alternating links, which he defined, were hyperbolic. In addition, he has defined almost alternating and toroidally alternating links. He has often
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Low-dimensional topology and Kleinian groups (Coventry/Durham, 1984), 115—130, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 112, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1986.
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collaborated and published this research with students from SMALL, an undergraduate summer research program at Williams.
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C. Adams, "Riot at the Calc Exam and Other Mathematically Bent Stories." American Mathematical Society, 2009.
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Revised reprint of the 1994 original. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2004. xiv+307 pp. 
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in 1983. His dissertation was titled "Hyperbolic Structures on Link Complements" and was supervised by
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C. Adams; O. Capovilla-Searle, J. Freeman, D. Irvine, S. Petti, D.Vitek, A. Weber, S. Zhang.
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C. Adams, R. Franzosa, "Introduction to Topology: Pure and Applied." Prentice Hall, 2007.
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Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, vol. 24, no. 2 (2015) 1550012 (16 pages).
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The Knot Book: An elementary introduction to the mathematical theory of knots.
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Adams has investigated and defined a variety of geometric invariants of
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The Tiling Book: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Tilings.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
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C. Adams,"Zombies & Calculus." Princeton University Press, 2014.
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This article is about the mathematician. For the TV executive, see
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Cusp size bounds from singular surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
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Why Knot?: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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C. Adams; A. Colestock; J. Fowler; W. Gillam; E. Katerman.
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The noncompact hyperbolic $ 3$ -manifold of minimal volume.
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Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 1, 103—110.
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Among his earliest contributions is his theorem that the
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C. Adams, J. Rogawski, "Calculus." W. H. Freeman, 2015.
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A typical announcement for a Slugbate talk with a photo
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Thrice-punctured spheres in hyperbolic $ 3$ -manifolds.
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Augmented alternating link complements are hyperbolic.
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How to Ace the Rest of Calculus: The Streetwise Guide.
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The Math Museum: A Survival Story”, MAA Press, 2022.
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American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2022.
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List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS
University of Wisconsin
PhD
Mathematics
Williams College
Doctoral advisor
James W. Cannon
Colin Adams (executive)
mathematician
hyperbolic 3-manifolds
knot theory
knot theory
Francis Christopher Oakley
Williams College
Mathematical Intelligencer
B.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
mathematics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
James Cannon
American Mathematical Society
Gieseking manifold
hyperbolic 3-manifold
horoball
figure-eight knot
complement
hyperbolic links

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