John Isbell

4.3k total citations
132 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

John Isbell is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Algebra and Number Theory and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Isbell has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Geometry and Topology, 49 papers in Algebra and Number Theory and 41 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in John Isbell's work include Advanced Topology and Set Theory (34 papers), Rings, Modules, and Algebras (34 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (27 papers). John Isbell is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Topology and Set Theory (34 papers), Rings, Modules, and Algebras (34 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (27 papers). John Isbell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. John Isbell's co-authors include Melvin Henriksen, John Howie, Seymour Ginsburg, Zbigniew Semadeni, Daniel K. N. Johnson, H. H. Corson, Jan-Erik Roos, Richard A. Davis, Ulrich Oberst and Jean Bénabou and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Mathematics of Computation and Annals of Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

John Isbell

118 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Isbell United States 28 1.1k 926 884 866 474 132 2.5k
H. Jerome Keisler United States 25 1.3k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 392 0.4× 1.8k 2.1× 267 0.6× 108 3.4k
A. Seidenberg United States 19 844 0.7× 278 0.3× 501 0.6× 690 0.8× 72 0.2× 53 1.9k
Louis J. Billera United States 26 686 0.6× 229 0.2× 568 0.6× 681 0.8× 300 0.6× 66 2.1k
Jan van Mill Netherlands 21 2.0k 1.8× 1.6k 1.7× 790 0.9× 651 0.8× 319 0.7× 264 2.4k
Robert F. Tichy Austria 20 573 0.5× 538 0.6× 611 0.7× 610 0.7× 125 0.3× 146 2.0k
Alexander S. Kechris United States 27 3.3k 2.9× 2.5k 2.7× 640 0.7× 1.9k 2.1× 189 0.4× 108 4.3k
Gerald Beer United States 27 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 249 0.3× 1.1k 1.3× 451 1.0× 150 2.7k
R. Daniel Mauldin United States 27 965 0.8× 2.2k 2.4× 154 0.2× 623 0.7× 70 0.1× 130 2.9k
Michael Mislove United States 14 719 0.6× 449 0.5× 359 0.4× 1.6k 1.8× 887 1.9× 63 2.4k
Andreas Blass United States 26 945 0.8× 535 0.6× 475 0.5× 2.3k 2.6× 338 0.7× 164 3.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Isbell, John. (1991). First Steps in Descriptive Theory of Locales. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 327(1). 353–353. 5 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1983). N(5, 4; 3) ⩾ 24. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 34(3). 379–380. 2 indexed citations
3.
Isbell, John. (1981). Product Spaces in Locales. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 81(1). 116–116. 5 indexed citations
4.
Isbell, John & Barry Mitchell. (1976). Exact Colimits and Fixed Points. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 220. 289–289. 2 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1969). A set whose square can map onto a perfect set. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 20(1). 254–255. 1 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1969). A counterexample in weighted majority games. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 20(2). 590–590. 10 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1969). A Counterexample in Weighted Majority Games. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 20(2). 590–590. 1 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1968). Remarks on decompositions of categories. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 19(4). 899–904. 1 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1968). A Note on Exact Colimits. Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. 11(4). 569–572. 7 indexed citations
10.
Howie, John & John Isbell. (1967). Epimorphisms and dominions. II. Journal of Algebra. 6(1). 7–21. 78 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1966). Embedding two ordered rings in one ordered ring. Part I. Journal of Algebra. 4(3). 341–364. 6 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & John Isbell. (1965). The category of cofinal types. I. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 116(0). 386–393. 16 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & John Isbell. (1965). The Category of Cofinal Types. I. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 116. 386–386. 2 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1964). Uniform Spaces. Mathematical surveys and monographs. 162 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1964). Remarks on spaces of large cardinal number. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal. 14(3). 383–385. 5 indexed citations
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Isbell, John & Zbigniew Semadeni. (1963). Projection constants and spaces of continuous functions. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 107(1). 38–48. 44 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1961). Irreducible polyhedral expansions. Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). 64. 242–248. 8 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1959). Embeddings of Inverse Limits. Annals of Mathematics. 70(1). 73–73. 24 indexed citations
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Isbell, John. (1957). On a theorem of Richardson. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 8(5). 928–929. 3 indexed citations
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Henriksen, Melvin & John Isbell. (1953). On the continuity of the real roots of an algebraic equation. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(3). 431–434. 13 indexed citations

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