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Born October 30, 1946 • Washington, D.C. • United States
Died August 21, 2012 (aged 65) • Rochester • New York City
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1983)
Subjects Of Study manifold • topology
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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