- Jerome Levine
Jerome Paul Levine (
May 4 ,1937 –April 8 ,2006 ) was amathematician who contributed to the understanding ofknot theory .Education and Career
Born in
New York City , Levine received his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1958, and his Ph.D. inmathematics fromPrinceton University in 1962, studying underNorman Steenrod . He began his career as an instructor at M.I.T., after which he spent a year at theUniversity of Cambridge under aNational Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. He became a professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1964, and in 1966 he left forBrandeis University . His early work helped to develop surgery as a powerful tool in knot theory and in geometric topology.Jerry Levine died after a long and hard fought battle with
lymphatic cancer at the age of 68. He was an active mathematician at Brandeis until his death, with his last paper, on [http://www.msp.warwick.ac.uk/agt/2006/06/p035.xhtml Labeled binary planar trees and quasi-Lie algebras] , published four months after he died.External links
* [http://people.brandeis.edu/~levine/ Personal webpage at Brandeis University]
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/one?unetid=110108109111115117112116 Faculty page at Brandeis University]
* [http://www.ams.org/ams/inmemory.html Obituary notice at the American Mathematical Society]
* [http://www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2006/05/02/News/Obituary.Jerome.Levine.Knot.Theorist.Dies.At.68-1898971.shtml Brandeis Justice]
* [http://www.math.brandeis.edu/levinememorial.html "In Memory of Jerry Levine"]
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