De Witt Lee Sumners is an American mathematician, having been the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.[1][2] He is known for his research in knot theory, topological fluid dynamics, and their application to DNA.[3]

Sumners earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of John F. P. Hudson.[4] He retired in 2007, and became a professor emeritus. In 2012, he was named as one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Distinguished Faculty". fsu.edu. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Dewitt Sumners". fsu.edu. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ "De Witt Summers". Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ De Witt Sumners at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ De Witt Sumners named an inaugural fellow of American Mathematical Society, Florida State University, September 20, 2012.
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