Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Stephen Smale
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Quizzes
Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics
Read Next
bunch of numbers
Unusual Counting Systems
number zero, 0 balloon
Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
Discover
World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Calendar marking march 15th
22 Questions About Time and Timekeeping Answered
airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium
When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

Stephen Smale: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Stephen-Smale
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born July 15, 1930 (age 94) • Flint • Michigan
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1966)
Subjects Of Study Poincaré conjecture • dynamical systems theory • topology
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Pontryagin, Lev Semyonovich
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin
Russian mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
Gregory Margulis
Russian mathematician
John Tate
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics