James W. Cannon

James W. Cannon
Born (1943-01-30) January 30, 1943
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Known forWork in low-dimensional topology, geometric group theory
AwardsFellow of the American Mathematical Society
Sloan Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Brigham Young University
Doctoral advisor
Cecil Burgess
Doctoral students
Colin Adams

James W. Cannon (born January 30, 1943) is an American mathematician working in the areas of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. He was an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University.

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