Lee Neuwirth

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Lee Paul Neuwirth (* 1933 ) is an American mathematician.

Neuwirth first studied chemical engineering at Princeton University (Bachelor 1955), earned a master’s degree in applied mathematics from Columbia University and received his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1959 with Ralph Fox (knot groups). The subject of the dissertation was knot theory, which he later published.

Neuwirth was deputy director from 1965 to 1977 and then director of the Communications Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analyzes in Princeton for eight years . He stayed there until his retirement in 1999. He received the National Security Agency's Exceptional Career Service Award .

He is the father of the actress Bebe Neuwirth (* 1958).

Fonts

  • Knot Groups, Princeton University Press 1965
  • Editors: Knots, groups, and 3-manifolds: papers dedicated to the memory of RH Fox, Princeton University Press 1975
  • Nothing Personal - the Vietnam War in Princeton 1965-1975, Booksurge Publishing 2009, Review by Princeton Alumni, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project