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Born August 4, 1909 • Connecticut
Died April 14, 2005 (aged 95) • San Francisco • California
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1989)
Subjects Of Study category theory
Richard Dagobert Brauer
American mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Pontryagin, Lev Semyonovich
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin
Russian mathematician
Henri Cartan
French mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Alfred Tarski
American mathematician and logician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
George Dantzig
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Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
John Cocke
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