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John Milnor is an American mathematician and topologist who has served as a university teacher. Born in Orange in 1931, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton University, where he studied under Ralph Fox. His academic career includes positions at Princeton University, Stony Brook University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Milnor’s work focuses on topology, mathematics, differential topology, and K-theory. He is married to Dusa McDuff and speaks English.
Milnor has received the Fields medal, Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, and Leroy P. Steele Prize. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, National Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His notable works include the Fary–Milnor theorem, Švarc–Milnor lemma, and Milnor K-theory. He has supervised doctoral students such as Tadatoshi Akiba, Laurent C. Siebenmann, John Mather, and Michael Spivak.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Prospects in mathematics
- Prospects in Mathematics. (AM-70), Volume 70
- Differential topology
- The representation rings of some classical groups
- Symmetric Bilinear Forms
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-02-08
Discography
- The John Towner Touch1957
- World on a String1957
- Rhythm in Motion1961
- How to Steal a Million1966
- Williams: Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble / Penderecki: Pittsburgh Overture / Mayuzumi: Music with Sculpture1970
- Music for Cello and Piano1974
- Jaws: Original Motion Picture Score1975
- Music From John Williams' Classic Film Scores: Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Star Wars1978
- Pops in Space1980
- Pops on the March1980
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,910x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,131x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1931-02-20 ) February 20, 1931 (age 95) , Orange, New Jersey
- Education
- Princeton University ( BA , MA , PhD )
- Spouse
- Dusa McDuff
- Awards
- Putnam Fellow (1949, 1950), Sloan Fellowship (1955), Fields Medal (1962), National Medal of Science (1967), Leroy P. Steele Prize (1982, 2004, 2011), Wolf Prize (1989), Abel Prize (2011), Lomonosov Gold Medal (2020)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Princeton University , Stony Brook University
- Thesis
- Isotopy of Links (1954)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ralph Fox
- Doctoral students
- Tadatoshi Akiba , Jon Folkman , John Mather , Laurent C. Siebenmann , Michael Spivak
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Orange
- Spouse
- Dusa McDuff
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Ralph Fox
- Field of work
- exotic sphere
- Image
- John Milnor.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1931-02-20
- Commons category
- John Milnor
- Erdős number
- 3
- birth name
- John Willard Milnor
- name
- Jack Milnor
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. 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
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