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Jones’s speciality, operator algebras, provided a powerful tool in the study of knots.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
By the 1970s, Connes had made strides towards a complete classification of particular systems of operators known as Von Neumann algebras.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
One result, now known as the Jones index theorem, showed that when these algebras are nested within one another, their relative sizes conform to precise but enigmatic numerical ratios.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
We were looking at algebras; we were looking at general relativity; we were looking at pre-space.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
Thus the various algebras which have been actually developed have, in the main, definite relations to the structure of the space world of our physical experience.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
