James W. Cannon (born January 30, 1943) is an American mathematician working in the areas of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. He was an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University.
جيمس دبليو. كانون (بالإنجليزية: James W. Cannon) هو رياضياتي أمريكي، ولد في 30 يناير 1943 في بيلفونتي في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
James W. Cannon (born January 30, 1943) is an American mathematician working in the areas of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. He was an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University. (en)
James Weldon Cannon (Bellefonte, Pensilvânia, 30 de janeiro de 1943) é um matemático estadunidense, que trabalha com topologia geométrica. Cannon obteve um doutorado em 1969 na Universidade de Utah, orientado por , com a tese Tame subsets of 2-spheres in euclidean 3-space. A partir de 1977 foi professor da Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison e a partir de 1986 da Universidade Brigham Young. Foi palestrante convidado do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Helsinque (1978: The characterization of topological manifolds of dimension ). Em 2012 foi eleito fellow da American Mathematical Society. (pt)
James Weldon Cannon (* 30. Januar 1943 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) ist ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der sich mit hyperbolischen Mannigfaltigkeiten, geometrischer Topologie und geometrischer Gruppentheorie befasst. Cannon wurde 1969 bei an der University of Utah promoviert (Tame subsets of 2-spheres in euclidean 3-space). Ab 1977 war er Professor an der University of Wisconsin–Madison und ab 1986 an der Brigham Young University. 1971 erhielt er ein Forschungsstipendium der Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Sloan Research Fellowship). (de)