Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman | |
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Freedman in 2010 | |
| Born | Michael Hartley Freedman April 21, 1951 (age 75) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Work on the Generalized Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4 Systolic geometry E8 manifold NLTS conjecture |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (1980) MacArthur Fellowship (1984) Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1986) Fields Medal (1986) National Medal of Science (1987) Guggenheim Fellowship (1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Microsoft Station Q UC Santa Barbara UC San Diego Institute for Advanced Study UC Berkeley |
| Thesis | Codimension-Two Surgery (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
Doctoral students | Ian Agol Zhenghan Wang |
Michael Hartley Freedman (born April 21, 1951) is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.