1. Louis Hirsch Kauffman was born on February 3,1945 and is an American mathematician, mathematical physicist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
11 Facts About Louis Kauffman
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Louis Kauffman is best known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial.
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Louis Kauffman has worked at many places as a visiting professor and researcher, including the University of Zaragoza in Spain, the University of Iowa in Iowa City, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures Sur Yevette, France, the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris, France, the University of Bologna, Italy, the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, and the Newton Institute in Cambridge, England.
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Louis Kauffman is the founding editor and one of the managing editors of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, and editor of the World Scientific Book Series On Knots and Everything.
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Louis Kauffman writes a column entitled Virtual Logic for the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.
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Louis Kauffman plays clarinet in the ChickenFat Klezmer Orchestra in Chicago.
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Louis Kauffman's work is primarily on the topics of knot theory and its connections with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics, and foundations.
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Louis Kauffman won a Lester R Ford Award in 1978.
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Louis Kauffman is the 1993 recipient of the Warren McCulloch award of the American Society for Cybernetics and the 1996 award of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association for his work in discrete physics.
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Louis Kauffman is the 2014 recipient of the Norbert Wiener award of the American Society for Cybernetics.
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Louis H Kauffman is author of several monographs on knot theory and mathematical physics.