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Also Known As Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones
Born December 31, 1952 • Gisborne • New Zealand
Died September 6, 2020 (aged 67) • Nashville • Tennessee
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1990)
Subjects Of Study functional analysis • knot theory • von Neumann algebra

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