Józef H. Przytycki

Józef Henryk Przytycki born 1953 in Warsaw, Poland is a mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology.

In 1987, he and Pawel Traczyk published "Invariants of links of Conway type" (Kobe J.Math., 4, 1987, 115-139.), which included a description of what is now called the HOMFLY(PT) polynomial; postal delays prevented Przytycki and Traczyk from receiving full recognition alongside the other six discoverers.

A native of Poland, Przytycki received a Master of Science degree in mathematics from Warsaw University in 1977 and, after emigrating to the United States, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University, where his advisor was Joan Birman. He is currently a professor of mathematics at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is married with children to computational biologist and mathematician Teresa Przytycka. His elder son, born November 11, 1987 is named Tomasz, and his younger son, born December 1, 1989 is named Pawel.

External links

* [http://home.gwu.edu/%7Eprzytyck/ Personal web page]
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