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an American mathematician, [|topologist], and professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the [|University of Wisconsin–Madison], under advisor R. H. Bing on [|isotopies] in [|manifolds]. The //Kister Isotopy// was an important contribution to the theory of [|higher dimensional topology]. 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 program for a computer to play chess, MANIAC I.
 * James M. Kister**,

=Selected Publications=
 * James Kister, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam, William Walden, Mark Wells (**1957**). //[|Experiments in Chess]//. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 2
 * James Kister (**1959**). //Small isotopies in Euclidean spaces and 3-manifolds//. [|Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society], Vol. 65, pp.371-37
 * James Kister (**1959**). //Isotopies in Manifolds//. Ph.D. thesis, [|University of Wisconsin–Madison], advisor R. H. Bing, [|Isotopies in 3-Manifolds as pdf]

=External Links= > [|Memoir | James M. Kister | Faculty History Project]
 * [|James M. Kister | Faculty History Project], University of Michigan
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Kister]

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