W B R Lickorish

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Nationality United Kingdom Known for Topology Fields Mathematician		Name W. R. Role Mathematician

Alma mater University of Cambridge Notable awards Chauvenet Prize, Senior Whitehead Prize
Education University of Cambridge Doctoral advisor Christopher Zeeman

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.

In 1991, Lickorish received the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

Lickorish, W.B.R. (November 1962). "A Representation of Orientable Combinatorial 3-Manifolds". The Annals of Mathematics. 76 (3): 531–540. JSTOR 1970373. doi:10.2307/1970373.

Freyd, P.; Yetter, D.; Hoste, J.; Lickorish, W.B.R.; Millett, K.; Ocneanu, A. (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.

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W. B. R. Lickorish Wikipedia

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