Louis Kauffman

Louis H. Kauffman
Kauffman in 2014
Born	(1945-02-03) February 3, 1945 (age 79)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Chicago
Doctoral advisor	William Browder

Louis Hirsch Kauffman (born February 3, 1945) is an American mathematician, mathematical physicist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He does research in topology, knot theory, topological quantum field theory, quantum information theory, and diagrammatic and categorical mathematics. He is best known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial.