W. B. R. Lickorish

W. B. R. Lickorish
W. B. R. Lickorish in Berkeley in 1974
Born	19 February 1938 (1938-02-19) (age 78)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Mathematician
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Erik Christopher Zeeman
Doctoral students	Marc Lackenby
Known for	Topology
Notable awards	Chauvenet Prize (1991) Senior Whitehead Prize (1991)

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.^[1]

In 1991, Lickorish received the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.^[2]

Selected publications

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

See also

• Lickorish–Wallace theorem

References

1. ↑ W. B. R. Lickorish at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". Retrieved 2015-04-01.