Vaughan Fredrick Randal Jones
Born: 31 Dec 1952 in Gisnorne, New Zealand
Knot: Knot Theory is the study of the way a closed curve can be embedded in three dimensional space with out intersecting itself.
Intuitively, on may "make a knot" by tying an ordinary piece of string and then fusing together the free ends of the string.
Associated with any knot is its knot group which is the fundamental group of the space obtained by removing the knot from the R" in which it is embedded.
Vaughan Jones attended school in Cambridge, New Zealand at St. Peter's School from age eight to twelve. He began…