Allen Back

Senior Lecturer (Retired)
211 Malott Hall
(607) 255-4629
ahb2@cornell.edu

Office Hours

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

Research Area

Differential geometry, dynamical systems

Selected Publications

On Some Fundamental Equations of Equivariant Riemannian Geometry (with Manfredo do Carmo and Wu-Yi Hsiang) Tamkang Journal of Mathematics Volume 40 No. 4 (2009) 343-376.

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

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

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

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

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