Morwen Thistlethwaite

Morwen Bernard Thistlethwaite (born 5 June 1945) is a knot theorist and professor of mathematics for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

He studied piano with Tanya Polunin, James Gibb and Balint Vazsonyi, giving concerts in London before deciding to pursue a career in mathematics in 1975.

[2] Morwen Thistlethwaite helped prove the Tait conjectures, which are: Morwen Thistlethwaite, along with Louis Kauffman and Kunio Murasugi proved the first two Tait conjectures in 1987 and Thistlethwaite and William Menasco proved the Tait flyping conjecture in 1991.

A look up table of possible permutations is used that uses quarter turns of all faces to get the cube into group G1.

Thistlethwaite was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to low dimensional topology, especially for the resolution of classical knot theory conjectures of Tait and for knot tabulation".