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John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician and topologist born in Orange in 1931. He serves as a university teacher and has worked in the fields of topology, mathematics, differential topology, and K-theory. Milnor received his education at Princeton University, where he also earned a Doctor of Philosophy. His doctoral advisor was Ralph Fox.
He has been employed by Princeton University, Stony Brook University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Milnor is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His notable works include the Fary–Milnor theorem, the Švarc–Milnor lemma, and Milnor K-theory.
Among his awards are the Fields medal, the Abel Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize. He is married to Dusa McDuff. His doctoral students include Tadatoshi Akiba, Laurent C. Siebenmann, John Mather, and Michael Spivak. Milnor speaks English and has an Erdős number of 3.
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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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- 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
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- 1931-02-20
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- Erdős number
- 3
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- John Willard Milnor
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- Jack Milnor
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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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