About Stephen John Bigelow
Born 1971. Stephen John Bigelow is an Australian university teacher and mathematician.
Stephen John Bigelow is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for his proof that braid groups are linear, concurrently with and independently of another proof by Daan Krammer.
Bigelow earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1992 and 1994 from the University of Melbourne. He returned to Melbourne for two years as a research fellow before joining the UCSB faculty in 2002. He was a Sloan Research Fellow for 2002–2006.
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Stephen John Bigelow was born in 1971 in Cambridge.
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