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He was born in Gisborne , New Zealand and brought up in Cambridge, New Zealand , completing secondary school at Auckland Grammar School. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Auckland, after which he travelled widely abroad. His work on Knot Polynomial s, with the discovery of what is now called the Jones Polynomial , was from an unexpected direction with origins in Functional Analysis , as conceived by Alain Connes . It led to the solution of a number of the classical problems of Knot Theory , and to increased interest in Low-dimensional Topology . He was awarded a Distinguished Companion of New Zealand Order Of Merit in 2002 (an equivalent of a Knighthood under the old honours system). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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