Biography: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] From 1965-67, he looked into cryptology research at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.[1] 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Sumners, De Witt (October 1998), "Mathematics professor James Andrews", Florida State Times 4, http://www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/Volume4/oct98web/5oct98.html.
- ↑ James J. Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ↑ Retired faculty, Florida State University General Bulletin 1998-1999, retrieved 2011-07-13. Backed up to Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- ↑ View from the Chair, Florida State University Mathematics Department, Spring 2000, retrieved 2011-07-13.
- ↑ 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.
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