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American mathematician
Kenneth C. Millett (born 1941) is a professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Santa Barbara .
[1] His research concerns
low-dimensional topology ,
knot theory , and the applications of knot theory to
DNA structure;
[2] his initial is the "M" in the name of the
HOMFLY polynomial .
[3]
Millett graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
[1] He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from the
University of Wisconsin under the supervision of Edward R. Fadell.
[4] After short-term instructor positions at the
University of California, Los Angeles and MIT, he joined the UCSB faculty in 1969 and was promoted to professor in 1979.
[1]
Millett won the
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the
Mathematical Association of America in 1989 and the
Chauvenet Prize in 1991 for a paper on knot theory with
W. B. R. Lickorish .
[5]
[6]
He became a
fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000.
[1] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the
American Mathematical Society .
[7]
Selected publications
with Eric J. Rawdon, Andrzej Stasiak: Rawdon, Eric J.; Millett, Kenneth C.; Stasiak, Andrzej (2015).
"Subknots in ideal knots, random knots, and knotted proteins" . Sci. Rep . 5 : 8928.
Bibcode :
2015NatSR...5E8928R .
doi :
10.1038/srep08928 .
PMC
4354144 .
PMID
25753957 .
with Michal Jamroz, Wanda Niemyska, Eric J. Rawdon, Andrzej Stasiak, Piotr Sułkowski, Joanna I. Sulkowska: Jamroz, Michal; Niemyska, Wanda; Rawdon, Eric J.; Stasiak, Andrzej; Millett, Kenneth C.; Sułkowski, Piotr; Sulkowska, Joanna I. (28 January 2015).
"KnotProt: a database of proteins with knots and slipknots" . Nucleic Acids Res . 43 (Database issue): D306–D314.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gku1059 .
PMC
4383900 .
PMID
25361973 .
with Joanna I. Sułkowska, Eric J. Rawdon, Jose N. Onuchic, Andrzej Stasiak: Sulkowska, J. I.; Rawdon, E. J.; Millett, K. C.; Onuchic, J. N.; Stasiak, A. (26 June 2012).
"Conservation of complex knotting and slipknotting patterns in proteins" . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 109 (26): E1715–E1723.
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1205918109 .
PMC
3387036 .
PMID
22685208 .
with D. Jonish: Jonish, D.; Millett, K. C. (1991).
"Isotopy invariants of graphs" . Trans. Amer. Math. Soc . 327 (2): 655–702.
doi :
10.1090/s0002-9947-1991-1062189-2 .
MR
1062189 .
with
P. Freyd , D. Yetter, J. Hoste, W. B. R. Lickorish and A. Ocneanu: Freyd, P.; Yetter, D.; Hoste, J.; Lickorish, W. B. R.; Millett, K.; Ocneanu, A. (1985).
"A new polynomial invariant of knots and links" . Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) . 12 (2): 239–246.
doi :
10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15361-3 .
MR
0776477 .
Millett, Kenneth C. (1978).
"Piecewise linear embeddings of balls into contractible manifolds" . Proc. Amer. Math. Soc . 70 : 85–86.
doi :
10.1090/s0002-9939-1978-0467761-5 .
MR
0467761 .
Millett, Kenneth C. (1976).
"Piecewise linear bundles in the metastable range" . Trans. Amer. Math. Soc . 216 : 337–350.
doi :
10.1090/s0002-9947-1976-0423361-7 .
MR
0423361 .
Piecewise linear concordances and isotopies . Memoirs of the AMS. 1974.
MR
0365585 .
Millett, Kenneth C. (1969).
"Normal structures for locally flat embeddings" . Proc. Amer. Math. Soc . 20 (2): 580–584.
doi :
10.1090/s0002-9939-1969-0246306-3 .
MR
0246306 .
Millett, Kenneth C. (1969).
"Nonsingular sections to Euclidean bundles" . Trans. Amer. Math. Soc . 144 : 127–143.
doi :
10.1090/s0002-9947-1969-0253356-4 .
MR
0253356 .
References
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Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2015-02-09.
^ Wertheim, Margaret (Winter 2005–2006),
"Where the Wild Things Are: An Interview with Ken Millett" , Cabinet Magazine , 20 .
^ Manturov, Vassily (2004),
Knot Theory , CRC Press, p. 57,
ISBN
9780203402849 .
^
Kenneth Millett at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^
Writing Awards: The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links , MAA, retrieved 2015-02-09.
^ Lickorish, W. B. R.; Millett, K. C. (1988). "The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links". Mathematics Magazine . 61 (1). Taylor & Francis: 3–23.
doi :
10.1080/0025570x.1988.11977338 .
ISSN
0025-570X .
^
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2015-02-08.
International National Academics Other
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