James J. Andrews (mathematician)

James J. Andrews (March 18, 1930 – July 28, 1998) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Florida State University who specialized in knot theory, topology, and group theory.[1]

Andrews was born March 18, 1930, in Seneca Falls, New York.[1] He did his undergraduate studies at Hofstra College,[1] and earned his doctorate in 1957 from the University of Georgia under the supervision of M. K. Fort, Jr.[2] He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Georgia, and the University of Washington before joining the FSU faculty in 1961. Andrews was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1963-64.[3] He retired in 1994,[1][4] and died July 28, 1998 in Tallahassee, Florida.[1][5]

Andrews is known with Morton L. Curtis for the Andrews–Curtis conjecture concerning Nielsen transformations of balanced group presentations.[1] Andrews and Curtis formulated the conjecture in a 1965 paper;[6] it remains open.

Andrews was a member of the advisory board of the "African Americans For Humanism" organization.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sumners, De Witt (October 1998), "Mathematics professor James Andrews", Florida State Times 4.
  2. ↑ James J. Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
  4. ↑ Retired faculty, Florida State University General Bulletin 1998-1999, retrieved 2011-07-13.
  5. ↑ View from the Chair, Florida State University Mathematics Department, Spring 2000, retrieved 2011-07-13.
  6. ↑ Andrews, J. J.; Curtis, M. L. (1965), "Free groups and handlebodies", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 16 (2): 192–195, doi:10.2307/2033843, JSTOR 2033843, MR 0173241.
  7. ↑ "African Americans For Humanism (AAH) Advisory Board". Council for Secular Humanism. Retrieved 27 May 2013. James Andrews (Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University)
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