James J. Andrews (March 18, 1930 – July 28, 1998) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Florida State University who specialized in knot theory, topology, and group theory.
[1] Andrews was born March 18, 1930, in Seneca Falls, New York.
[3] From 1965-67, he looked into cryptology research at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
[1][5] Andrews is known with Morton L. Curtis for the Andrews–Curtis conjecture concerning Nielsen transformations of balanced group presentations.
[1] Andrews and Curtis formulated the conjecture in a 1965 paper;[6] it remains open.