Kenneth Millett

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Kenneth C. Millett (born 1941) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [1] His research concerns low-dimensional topology, knot theory, and the applications of knot theory to DNA structure; [2] his initial is the "M" in the name of the HOMFLY polynomial. [3]

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Millett graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. [1] He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin under the supervision of Edward R. Fadell. [4] After short-term instructor positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and MIT, he joined the UCSB faculty in 1969 and was promoted to professor in 1979. [1]

Millett won the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America in 1989 and the Chauvenet Prize in 1991 for a paper on knot theory with W. B. R. Lickorish. [5] [6] He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000. [1] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-02-09.
  2. Wertheim, Margaret (Winter 2005–2006), "Where the Wild Things Are: An Interview with Ken Millett", Cabinet Magazine, 20.
  3. Manturov, Vassily (2004), Knot Theory, CRC Press, p. 57, ISBN   9780203402849 .
  4. Kenneth Millett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Writing Awards: The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links, MAA, retrieved 2015-02-09.
  6. Lickorish, W. B. R.; Millett, K. C. (1988). "The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links". Mathematics Magazine. Taylor & Francis. 61 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1080/0025570x.1988.11977338. ISSN   0025-570X.
  7. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-02-08.