John Norman Mather was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. He was descended from Atherton Mather, a cousin of Cotton Mather. His early work dealt with the stability of smooth... Wikipedia
Born: June 9, 1942, Los Angeles, CA
Died: January 28, 2017 (age 74 years), Princeton, NJ
Notable students: Vadim Kaloshin, Alfonso Sorrentino, Giovanni Forni, and more