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Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and the only mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Abel Prize and all three Steele prizes. Early life and career
John Milnor’s profound ideas and fundamental discoveries have largely shaped the mathematical landscape of the second half of the 20th century. He receives the 2011 Abel Prize “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra,” to quote the Abel committee. All of Milnor’s work display features of great research:
Mar 24, 2011 · John Milnor, an American mathematician best known for the discovery of exotic hyperspheres, was awarded the 2011 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced March 23.
John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 for his work in differential topology and the Abel Prize in 2011 for his work in topology, geometry, and algebra.
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J.W. Milnor: On the total Curvature of Knots. The Place de l'Étoile in Paris, with The Arch of Triumph in the middle, has Milnor number 25. Dictionary for a better understanding of the citation of the Abel Commitee.
Milnor was awarded a Fields medal in 1962, the Wolf Prize in 1989, and is the only person to have won all three AMS Steele Prizes (for seminal contribution to research in 1982, for mathematical exposition in 2004, and for lifetime achievement this year).
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Mar 23, 2011 · Now the mathematician who discovered that spheres start to behave differently in higher dimensional space – an insight that seeded a whole new field of mathematics – has been awarded the $1...