Morwen Thistlethwaite | Academic Influence

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Morwen Thistlethwaite

Mathematics

#620

World Rank

#1154

Historical Rank

#272

USA Rank

Topology

#17

World Rank

#31

Historical Rank

#7

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#4368

World Rank

#5137

Historical Rank

#1216

USA Rank

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Morwen Thistlethwaite's Degrees

Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
Bachelors Mathematics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Morwen Bernard Thistlethwaite is a knot theorist and professor of mathematics for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has made important contributions to both knot theory and Rubik's Cube group theory.

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Morwen Thistlethwaite's Published Works

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A spanning tree expansion of the jones polynomial (1987) (468)
The first 1,701,936 knots (1998) (280)
Some links with non-trivial polynomials and their crossing-numbers (1988) (178)
The classification of alternating links (1993) (171)
The Tait flyping conjecture (1991) (138)
Classification of knot projections (1983) (126)
On the Kauffman polynomial of an adequate link (1988) (114)
Infinite families of links with trivial Jones polynomial (2003) (81)
Handbook of knot theory (2005) (81)
Kauffman's polynomial and alternating links (1988) (76)
Surfaces with boundary in alternating knot exteriors. (1992) (60)
Computing Varieties of Representations of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds into SL(4, ℝ) (2006) (56)
The rate of growth of the number of prime alternating links and tangles (1998) (52)
Flexing closed hyperbolic manifolds. (2007) (48)
LINKS WITH TRIVIAL JONES POLYNOMIAL (2001) (45)
Zariski dense surface subgroups in SL(3,Z) (2011) (36)
On the algebraic part of an alternating link. (1991) (30)
Behavior of knot invariants under genus 2 mutation (2006) (30)
Aspects of topology: Knot tabulations and related topics (1985) (29)
Character varieties for SL(3,C): the figure eight knot (2014) (24)
THE LINEAR GROWTH IN THE LENGTHS OF A FAMILY OF THICK KNOTS (2003) (22)
A geometric proof that alternating knots are non-trivial (1991) (21)
ON THE STRUCTURE AND SCARCITY OF ALTERNATING LINKS AND TANGLES (1998) (20)
An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements (2011) (19)
An upper bound for the breadth of the Jones polynomial (1988) (16)
Character Varieties For : The Figure Eight Knot (2014) (14)
Zariski Dense Surface Subgroups in SL(4, ) (2018) (11)
The dimension of the Hitchin component for triangle groups (2018) (9)
Zariski dense surface groups in SL (2 k + 1 , Z ) (2020) (2)
Constructing non-congruence subgroups of flexible hyperbolic 3-manifold groups (2009) (2)
Lenstra–Hurwitz cliques and the class number one problem (2016) (1)
Zariski dense surface groups on the Hitchin component (2019) (0)
Complex hyperbolic and projective deformations of small Bianchi groups (2022) (0)
Se p 20 03 To appear in the Handbook of Knot Theory (2008) (0)
Erratum: Behavior of knot invariants under genus 2 mutation [MR2657370] (2012) (0)
Table of Contents for the Handbook of Knot Theory (2003) (0)
The dimension of the Hitchin component for triangle groups (2018) (0)
An alternative method for computing the canonical cell decomposition of a hyperbolic link complement Preliminary version ( no figures yet ) (2007) (0)

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