Mathematician:Michael Hartley Freedman
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Mathematician
American mathematician best known for his work on the $4$-dimensional Generalized Poincaré Conjecture.
Fields Medal
Michael Hartley Freedman was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1986}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California, USA:
- Developed new methods for topological analysis of $4$-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the $4$-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: April 21, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Publications
- 1982: The topology of four-dimensional manifolds (J. Differ. Geom. Vol. 17, no. 3: pp. 357 – 453)
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Freedman, Michael Hartley (1951- )