Daniel Quillen
American mathematician
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Daniel Gray Quillen was an American mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.
From 1984 to 2006, he was the Waynflete... Wikipedia
Born: June 22, 1940, City of Orange, NJ
Died: April 30, 2011 (age 70 years), Gainesville, FL
Awards: Fields Medal (1978) and Frank Nelson Cole Prize (1975)
Doctoral students: Kenneth Brown; Varghese Mathai
Fields: Mathematics
Thesis: Formal Properties of Over-Determined Systems of Linear Partial Differential Equations (1964)
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