Louis Kauffman

Short Bio:

Louis Hirsch Kauffman has a B.S. from MIT (1966) and a PhD. from Princeton University (1972). He is Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kauffman is author of four books on knot theory and a book on the coloring of map and graphs. He received two Lester R. Ford Awards of the Mathematical Association of America (1978,2014). He received the Warren McCulloch Memorial Award (1993) and the Norbert Wiener Medal (2014) of the American Society for Cybernetics. Kauffman received the Bertalanffy prize (2016) for complexity thinking. He was made a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014. He works on knot theory and is known for the Kauffman Bracket knot invarant, the Kauffman polynomial and for the discovery and development of Virtual Knot Theory. His work is related to quantum theory and the cybernetics of eigenform and reflexive dynamics.