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Vaughan F. R. Jones

Professor Emeritus
Research
Primary Research Area: 
Mathematical Analysis
Additional Research Areas: 
Geometry/Topology
Research Interests: 
Von Neumann algebras
Contact Information
Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
vfr [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
http://math.berkeley.edu/~vfr/
Year Appointed: 
1985
Left UC Berkeley: 
2011
Retired: 
2011
Deceased: 
2020
Publications
Selected Publications: 
  1. Jones, Vaughan (2009). On the origin and development of subfactors and quantum topology. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 46 No.2, 309-326. [MR] [GS?]
  2. Jones, Vaughan F. R. (2007). In and around the origin of quantum groups. In Prospects in mathematical physics Contemp. Math. 437 101-126 Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, RI. [MR] [GS?]
  3. Grossman, Pinhas and Jones, Vaughan F. R. (2007). Intermediate subfactors with no extra structure. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 No.1, 219-265 (electronic). [MR] [GS?]
  4. Jones, Vaughan F. R. and Reznikoff, Sarah A. (2006). Hilbert space representations of the annular Temperley-Lieb algebra. Pacific J. Math. 228 No.2, 219-249. [MR] [GS?]
  5. Aharonov, Dorit and Jones, Vaughan and Landau, Zeph (2006). A polynomial quantum algorithm for approximating the Jones polynomial. In STOC'06: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 427-436 ACM New York. [MR] [GS?]