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Born September 2, 1923 • Montbéliard • France
Died October 25, 2002 (aged 79) • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1958)
Subjects Of Study catastrophe theory • cobordism • topology
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Cédric Villani
French mathematician
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Soviet mathematician

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