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Born November 29, 1959 (age 65) • Cape Town • South Africa
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1998)
Subjects Of Study Moonshine conjecture • algebra • vertex
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
William George Horner
British mathematician
Klaus Friedrich Roth
British mathematician
Alan Baker
British mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Timothy Gowers
British mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German mathematician
Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
Aryabhata I
Aryabhata
Indian astronomer and mathematician
Bhāskara II
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