Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Michael Hartley Freedman is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré... Wikipedia
Born: 1951 (age 72 years), Los Angeles, CA
Notable students: Zhenghan Wang and Ian Agol
Education: Princeton University (1973), University of California, Berkeley, Palisades Charter High School, and more
Known for: Work on the Generalized Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4; Systolic geometry; E8 manifold; NLTS conjecture
Awards: Sloan Research Fellowship (1980), MacArthur Fellowship (1984), Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1986), and more
Parents: Benedict Freedman
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