Allen Back

Senior Lecturer
211 Malott Hall
(607) 255-4629
back@math.cornell.edu

Ph.D. (1977) University of California at Berkeley

Research Area

Differential geometry, dynamical systems

Selected Publications

Rational Pontryagin classes and killing forms, J. Differential Geom. 16 no. 2 (1981), 191–193.

Pontryagin forms on homogeneous spaces, Comment. Math. Helv. 57 no. 3 (1982), 349–355.

Equivariant geometry and Kervaire spheres (with Wu Yi Hsiang), Trans. AMS 304 no. 1 (1987), 207–227.

dstool: Computer assisted exploration of dynamical systems (with J. Guckenheimer, M. Myers, F.J. Wicklin and P. Worfolk), Notices AMS 39 (1992), 303–309.

Mathematics and tensegrity (with R. Connelly), American Scientist March-April (1998), 142–151.