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James W. Cannon (born January 30, 1943) is an American mathematician working in the areas of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. He was an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University. ==Biographical data== James W. Cannon was born on January 30, 1943, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.〔(Biographies of Candidates 2003. ) Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 50 (2003), no. 8, pp. 973–986.〕 Cannon received a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Utah in 1969, under the direction of C. Edmund Burgess. He was a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977 to 1985.〔 In 1986 Cannon was appointed an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University.〔(Newsletter of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. ) Brigham Young University, February 2004. Accessed September 20, 2008.〕 He held this position until his retirement in September 2012.〔(44 Years of Mathematics. Brigham Young University. ) Accessed July 25, 2013.〕 Cannon gave an AMS Invited address at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Seattle in August 1977, an ICM invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki 1978, and delivered the 1982 Mathematical Association of America Hedrick Lectures in Toronto, Canada.〔〔(The Mathematical Association of America's Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturers ). Mathematical Association of America. Accessed September 20, 2008.〕 Cannon was elected to the American Mathematical Society Council in 2003 with the term of service February 1, 2004, to January 31, 2007.〔〔(2003 Election Results. ) Notices of the American Mathematical Society vol 51 (2004), no. 2, p. 269.〕 In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.〔(List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society ), retrieved 2012-11-10.〕 In 1993 Cannon delivered the 30-th annual Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture at Brigham Young University.〔(MATH PROFESSOR TO GIVE LECTURE WEDNESDAY AT Y. ) Deseret News. February 18, 1993.〕 James Cannon is a devout member of the LDS Church.〔Susan Easton Black.(Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-Day Saint Scholars. ) Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996. ISBN 978-1-57345-091-1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James W. Cannon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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