Subject: Jerry Levine (1937-2006) From: Andrew Ranicki Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:27:41 +0100 Jerry Levine died on 8th April. He was a student of Steenrod at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1961. Following appointements at MIT and Berkeley, from 1966 on he was at Brandeis University. In the 1960's and 1970's he was one of the pioneers of the surgery method of the classification of high-dimensional manifolds, their automorphisms and their embeddings, particularly of spheres and projective spaces. The classification of highly-connected high-dimensional codimension 2 knots and the computation of the cobordism groups of high-dimensional codimension 2 knots were particular highlights; he spoke at the 1970 Nice ICM on "The role of the Seifert matrix in knot theory". More recently, he made important contributions to the algebraic and geometric topology of low-dimensional knots and links.