# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cameron-gordon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:56.130Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cameron-gordon"
name: "Cameron Gordon"
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description: "Cameron Gordon is a Professor and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his work in knot theory. Among his notable results is his work with Marc Culler, John Luecke, and Peter Shalen on the cyclic surgery theorem. This was an important ingredient in his work with Luecke showing that knots were determined by their complement. Gordon was also involved in the resolution of the Smith conjecture."
tagline: "American mathematician"
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birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump