William Jaco

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William "Bus" H. Jaco (b. July 14, 1940 in Grafton, West Virginia) is the Grace B. Kerr Professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University. He works on 3-manifolds and discovered the JSJ decomposition.

He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968.

[edit] Publications

  • William Jaco Lectures on Three-Manifold Topology ISBN 0-8218-1693-4
  • W. H. Jaco, P. B. Shalen Seifert Fibered Spaces in Three Manifolds: Memoirs Series No. 220 (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; v. 21, no. 220) ISBN 0-8218-2220-9

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