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.
- ^ a b c d e f Sumners, De Witt (October 1998), "Mathematics professor James Andrews", Florida State Times, 4, archived from the original on August 19, 2012.
- ^ James J. Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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, JSTOR 2033843, MR 0173241.
- 1930 births
- 1998 deaths
- American humanists
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Group theorists
- American topologists
- Hofstra University alumni
- University of Georgia alumni
- University of Georgia faculty
- University of Washington faculty
- Florida State University faculty
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- People from Seneca Falls, New York
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
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.
- ^ a b c d e f Sumners, De Witt (October 1998), "Mathematics professor James Andrews", Florida State Times, 4, archived from the original on August 19, 2012.
- ^ James J. Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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, JSTOR 2033843, MR 0173241.
- 1930 births
- 1998 deaths
- American humanists
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Group theorists
- American topologists
- Hofstra University alumni
- University of Georgia alumni
- University of Georgia faculty
- University of Washington faculty
- Florida State University faculty
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- People from Seneca Falls, New York
- Mathematicians from New York (state)