| John Edwin Luecke | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | topology, knot theory |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Cameron McAllan Gordon |
| Known For: | Gordon–Luecke theorem |
John Edwin Luecke is an American mathematician who works in topology and knot theory. He got his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Texas at Austin and is now a professor in the department of mathematics at that institution.
Luecke specializes in knot theory and 3-manifolds. In a 1987 paper[1] Luecke, Marc Culler, Cameron Gordon, and Peter Shalen proved the cyclic surgery theorem. In a 1989 paper[2] Luecke and Cameron Gordon proved that knots are determined by their complements, a result now known as the Gordon–Luecke theorem.
Dr Luecke received a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award[3] [4] in 1992 and Sloan Foundation fellow[5] in 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]