W. B. R. Lickorish
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W. B. R. Lickorish in Berkeley in 1974 | |
| Born | 19 February 1938 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Erik Christopher Zeeman |
| Doctoral students | Marc Lackenby |
| Known for | Topology |
| Notable awards |
Chauvenet Prize (1991) Senior Whitehead Prize (1991) |
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William Bernard Raymond Lickorish is a mathematician. He is emeritus professor of geometric topology in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, and also an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His research interests include topology and knot theory. He was one of the discoverers of the HOMFLY polynomial.
Lickorish received his Ph.D from Cambridge in 1964.[1]
In 1991, Lickorish received the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.[2]
Selected publications
- Lickorish, W.B.R. (November 1962). "A Representation of Orientable Combinatorial 3-Manifolds". The Annals of Mathematics 76 (3): 531–540. doi:10.2307/1970373. JSTOR 1970373.
- Freyd, P.; Yetter, D.; Hoste, J.; Lickorish, W.B.R.; Millett, K.; Ocneanu, A. (1985). "A New Polynomial Invariant of Knots and Links". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 12 (2): 239–246. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15361-3.
- Lickorish, W.B.R. (1997). An Introduction to Knot Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics 175. Springer. ISBN 0-387-98254-X.
See also
References
- ↑ W. B. R. Lickorish at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". Retrieved 2015-04-01.
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