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Born July 3, 1897 • New York City • New York
Died October 7, 1965 (aged 68) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1936)
Subjects Of Study Plateau problem • group theory
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Leonard Eugene Dickson
American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
Camille Jordan
French mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician

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