W. B. R. Lickorish

W. B. R. Lickorish
W. B. R. Lickorish in Berkeley in 1974
Born 19 February 1938 (1938-02-19) (age 80)
Nationality United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Known for Topology
Awards Chauvenet Prize (1991)
Senior Whitehead Prize (1991)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematician
Doctoral advisor Erik Christopher Zeeman
Doctoral students Marc Lackenby

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) 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; his thesis was written under the supervision of Christopher Zeeman.[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". Annals of Mathematics. 76 (3): 531–540. doi:10.2307/1970373. JSTOR 1970373.
  • Freyd, Peter; Yetter, David; Hoste, Jim; Lickorish, W.B.R.; Millett, Kenneth; Ocneanu, Adrian (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

  1. ↑ W. B. R. Lickorish at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". Retrieved 2015-04-01.
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