W. B. R. Lickorish

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

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William Bernard Raymond Lickorish 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.

In 1991, Lickorish received the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.

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. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
• 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