Книга: Peter Maggs, Catherine Smith, Sue Kay, Vaughan Jones «New Inside Out (+аудиокурс на CD)»

Catherine Smith

Catherine Smith (or Catherine Joan Smith) is an English-speaking novelist and drama queen, best known for her love of Stephen King's Gothic fiction. Almost all that is known of her is that she came from a middle-class Canadian family, and had acted as a Princess at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto. She is currently a resident of Toronto, Ontario.

Novels

* "The Misanthrope Father, or The Guarded Secret" (1987)
* "The Caledonian Bandit or The Heir of Duncaethal" (1991)
* "The Castle of Arragon: or, The Banditti of the Forest" (1993)
* "Barozzi, or The Venetian Sorceress" (1995)
* "Living With Glenn: Blessing or Curse?" (2001)
* "What Gives With This Glenn Guy Anyway?" (2003)
* "Are We Still Talking About Glenn? Get Over It!" (2005)
* "OK, OK, I Admit I'm Obsessed With Glenn!!" (2007)

Источник: Catherine Smith

Vaughan Jones

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name = Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones

Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones DCNZM (born 31 December 1952) is a New Zealand mathematician, known for his work on von Neumann algebras, knot polynomials and conformal field theory. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990, and famously wore a New Zealand rugby jersey when he accepted the prize. Jones is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a Distinguished Alumni Professor at the University of Auckland.

Jones was born in Gisborne, New Zealand and brought up in Cambridge, New Zealand, completing secondary school at Auckland Grammar School. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Auckland, from where he obtained a B.Sc. in 1972 and an M.Sc. in 1973. For his graduate studies, he went to Switzerland, where he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva in 1979. His thesis, titled "Actions of finite groups on the hyperfinite II₁ factor", was written under the supervision of André Haefliger. In 1980, he moved to the United States, where he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1980-1981) and the University of Pennsylvania (1981-1985), before being appointed as Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

His work on knot polynomials, with the discovery of what is now called the Jones polynomial, was from an unexpected direction with origins in the theory of von Neumann algebras, an area of analysis already much developed by Alain Connes. It led to the solution of a number of the classical problems of knot theory, and to increased interest in low-dimensional topology.

He was awarded Distinguished Companionship of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 (an equivalent of a Knighthood under the old honours system).

ee also

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External links

*MacTutor Biography|id=Jones_Vaughan
*MathGenealogy |id=25056
* [http://math.berkeley.edu/~vfr/ Jones' home page]
* [http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/Careers/vaughan/vaughan.htm Career profile page at the University of Auckland]

Persondata
NAME= Jones, Vaughan Frederick Randal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist
DATE OF BIRTH= December 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH= Gisborne, New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH=
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Источник: Vaughan Jones