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 Luecke, Marc Culler, Cameron Gordon, and Peter Shalen proved the cyclic surgery theorem. In a 1989 paper 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 in 1992 and Sloan Foundation fellow in 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- NSF Presidential and Honorary Awards
- "Sloan Research Fellowships". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- 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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