His thesis, titled Actions of finite groups on the hyperfinite II1 factor, was written under the supervision of André Haefliger.
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His work on knot polynomials, with the discovery of what is now called the Jones polynomial, was from an unexpected direction with origins in the theory of von Neumann algebras, an area of analysis already much developed by Alain Connes.
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