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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
Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
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Daniel Gray Quillen
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Curtis McMullen
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Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
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Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Simon Donaldson
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René Frédéric Thom
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Oswald Veblen
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Saunders Mac Lane
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James W. Alexander II
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John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
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Jesse Douglas
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John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
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Shing-Tung Yau
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Charles Fefferman
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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