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Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)

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with the minimum possible volume. Weeks has written various computer programs to assist in mathematical research and
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for his expository paper, "The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations" (
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2004), and in 2008 he gave the first Levi Conant Lecture at Conant's former employer, the
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The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-dimensional Manifolds
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Weeks' research contributions have mainly been in the field of
52: 362: 309:"The call of genius surprises winners of MacArthur grants", 220:"New Model of the Universe: It's Shaped Like a Soccerball" 137:) explores the geometry and topology of low-dimensional 125:to understand the spatial universe. His book 363:Weeks' Topology and Geometry software website 8: 121:Weeks is particularly interested in using 187: 185: 19:(born December 10, 1956) is an American 181: 102:, discovered in 1985 by Weeks, is the 7: 218:Overbye, Dennis (October 8, 2003), 63:in 1985, under the supervision of 14: 262:Review by Alan H. Durfee (1989), 418:21st-century American physicists 413:20th-century American physicists 171:Worcester Polytechnic Institute 67:. Since then he has taught at 1: 358:Mathematics Genealogy Project 265:American Mathematical Monthly 161:in 1999. In 2007, he won the 141:. The second edition (2002, 398:Princeton University alumni 434: 108:mathematical visualization 114:program is used to study 393:Dartmouth College alumni 129:(Marcel Dekker, 1985, 116:hyperbolic 3-manifolds 69:Stockton State College 388:American cosmologists 104:hyperbolic 3-manifold 33:1999 MacArthur Fellow 17:Jeffrey Renwick Weeks 383:American topologists 290:Mathematical Reviews 244:Mathematical Reviews 163:Levi L. Conant Prize 61:Princeton University 25:geometric topologist 193:"2007 Conant Prize" 43:Weeks received his 339:(6): 610–619, 2004 333:Notices of the AMS 225:The New York Times 206:(4): 519–520, 2007 200:Notices of the AMS 167:Notices of the AMS 93:physical cosmology 77:Middlebury College 403:MacArthur Fellows 153:Awards and honors 51:in 1978, and his 49:Dartmouth College 425: 342: 340: 330: 322: 316: 314: 306: 300: 286: 280: 260: 254: 236: 230: 228: 215: 209: 207: 197: 189: 159:MacArthur Fellow 65:William Thurston 433: 432: 428: 427: 426: 424: 423: 422: 368: 367: 350: 345: 328: 324: 323: 319: 313:, June 23, 1999 308: 307: 303: 288:Review (2002), 287: 283: 277:10.2307/2325200 261: 257: 240:Thomas Banchoff 237: 233: 217: 216: 212: 195: 191: 190: 183: 179: 157:Weeks became a 155: 85: 41: 12: 11: 5: 431: 429: 421: 420: 415: 410: 405: 400: 395: 390: 385: 380: 370: 369: 366: 365: 360: 349: 348:External links 346: 344: 343: 317: 301: 281: 271:(7): 660–662, 255: 231: 210: 180: 178: 175: 154: 151: 100:Weeks manifold 84: 81: 73:Ithaca College 40: 37: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 430: 419: 416: 414: 411: 409: 406: 404: 401: 399: 396: 394: 391: 389: 386: 384: 381: 379: 378:Living people 376: 375: 373: 364: 361: 359: 355: 354:Jeffrey Weeks 352: 351: 347: 338: 334: 327: 321: 318: 312: 305: 302: 298: 295: 291: 285: 282: 278: 274: 270: 267: 266: 259: 256: 252: 249: 245: 241: 235: 232: 227: 226: 221: 214: 211: 205: 201: 194: 188: 186: 182: 176: 174: 172: 168: 164: 160: 152: 150: 148: 147:0-8247-0709-5 144: 140: 136: 135:0-8247-7437-X 132: 128: 124: 119: 117: 113: 109: 105: 101: 96: 94: 90: 82: 80: 78: 74: 70: 66: 62: 58: 54: 50: 46: 38: 36: 34: 31:. Weeks is a 30: 26: 22: 21:mathematician 18: 336: 332: 320: 310: 304: 289: 284: 268: 263: 258: 243: 234: 223: 213: 203: 199: 166: 156: 126: 120: 97: 86: 42: 16: 15: 408:1956 births 89:3-manifolds 57:mathematics 29:cosmologist 372:Categories 238:Review by 177:References 311:USA Today 139:manifolds 39:Biography 242:(1987), 123:topology 83:Research 356:at the 297:1875835 251:0806764 112:SnapPea 145:  133:  110:. His 75:, and 329:(PDF) 196:(PDF) 59:from 47:from 143:ISBN 131:ISBN 98:The 91:and 27:and 23:, a 273:doi 55:in 53:PhD 374:: 337:51 335:, 331:, 294:MR 292:, 269:96 248:MR 246:, 222:, 204:54 202:, 198:, 184:^ 173:. 95:. 71:, 45:BA 35:. 341:. 315:. 299:. 279:. 275:: 253:. 229:. 208:.

Index

mathematician
geometric topologist
cosmologist
1999 MacArthur Fellow
BA
Dartmouth College
PhD
mathematics
Princeton University
William Thurston
Stockton State College
Ithaca College
Middlebury College
3-manifolds
physical cosmology
Weeks manifold
hyperbolic 3-manifold
mathematical visualization
SnapPea
hyperbolic 3-manifolds
topology
ISBN
0-8247-7437-X
manifolds
ISBN
0-8247-0709-5
MacArthur Fellow
Levi L. Conant Prize
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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