Jerome Paul Levine (May 4, 1937 – April 8, 2006) was a mathematician who contributed to the understanding of knot theory.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1962, studying under Norman Steenrod.
He began his career as an instructor at M.I.T., after which he spent a year at the University of Cambridge under a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship.
[1] Jerome Levine died after a long and hard-fought battle with lymphatic cancer at the age of 68.
He was an active mathematician at Brandeis until his death, with his last paper[2] published four months after he died.