Sir Vaughan Jones. 31 December 1952—6 September 2020

Evans, David 2022. Sir Vaughan Jones. 31 December 1952—6 September 2020. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 73 , pp. 333-356. 10.1098/rsbm.2021.0051

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Abstract

Vaughan Jones made fundamental contributions to mathematics and mathematical physics, bringing together disparate areas of operator algebras, knots, links and low-dimensional topology in mathematics, and statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and quantum information in physics, while opening up the new field of quantum topology. The key that unlocked all this was his seminal work on subfactor theory in von Neumann algebras of operators, which led to a new invariant of links: the Jones polynomial. For this he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Publisher:	The Royal Society
ISSN:	0080-4606
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 March 2023
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2024 18:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157942

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