Biography:John Edwin Luecke
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Short description: American mathematician
John Edwin Luecke | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | Gordon–Luecke theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | topology, knot theory |
| Doctoral advisor | Cameron McAllan Gordon |
John Edwin Luecke is an American mathematician who works in topology and knot theory. He got his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Texas at Austin and is now a professor in the department of mathematics at that institution.
Work
Luecke specializes in knot theory and 3-manifolds. In a 1987 paper[1] Luecke, Marc Culler, Cameron Gordon, and Peter Shalen proved the cyclic surgery theorem. In a 1989 paper[2] Luecke and Cameron Gordon proved that knots are determined by their complements, a result now known as the Gordon–Luecke theorem.
Dr Luecke received a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award[3][4] in 1992 and Sloan Foundation fellow[5] in 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
References
- ↑ M. Culler, C. Gordon, J. Luecke, P. Shalen (1987). Dehn surgery on knots. The Annals of Mathematics (Annals of Mathematics) 125 (2): 237-300.
- ↑ Cameron Gordon and John Luecke, Knots are determined by their complements. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1989), no. 2, 371–415.
- ↑ The University of Texas at Austin; Faculty profile
- ↑ NSF Presidential and Honorary Awards
- ↑ Sloan Research Fellowships[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-02.
External links
- John Edwin Luecke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Luecke's home page at the University of Texas at Austin
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