Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/1958
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Recipients of the Fields Medal
The recipients of the Fields Medal in $1958$ were as follows:
Recipient(s) | Citation |
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Klaus Friedrich Roth | For solving a famous problem of number theory, namely, the determination of the exact exponent in the Thue-Siegel inequality. |
René Frédéric Thom | For creating the theory of 'Cobordisme' which has, within the few years of its existence, led to the most penetrating insight into the topology of differentiable manifolds. |
Location of conference: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $17$: Fields Medal winners
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $22$: Fields Medal winners