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Jeffrey Weeks

b. 1956

American mathematician

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Born 1956. Jeffrey Weeks is an American mathematician and topologist.

Jeffrey Renwick Weeks (born December 10, 1956) is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist. Weeks is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow.

Biography Weeks received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1978, and his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1985, under the supervision of William Thurston. Since then he has taught at Stockton State College, Ithaca College, and Middlebury College, but has spent much of his time as a free-lance mathematician. His book The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-dimensional Manifolds (Marcel Dekker, 1985, ) explores the geometry and topology of low-dimensional manifolds. The second edition (2002, ) explains some of his work in applying the material to cosmology.

Awards and honors Weeks became a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. In 2007, he won the Levi L. Conant Prize for his expository paper, "The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations" (Notices of the AMS 2004), and in 2008 he gave the first Levi Conant Lecture at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where Conant was head of the Mathematics Department from 1908 until his untimely death.

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Dartmouth College, Princeton University
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MacArthur Fellows Program
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American mathematician

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Jeffrey Weeks was born on 10 December 1956.

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Jeffrey Weeks is a mathematician and topologist.

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· Wikipedia: Jeffrey Weeks

· Wikidata: Q1686501

· DBpedia: Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)

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