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- 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
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-02-08
2008 universal fire victimacademy award winneramericanamerican composercinematic classicalclassical
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
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Recent publications · Crossref
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- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x
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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
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- 1931-02-20
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- birth name
- John Willard Milnor
- name
- Jack Milnor
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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.
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