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)


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