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- Born
- 1931-02-20
- 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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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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Key dates
- Born
- 20 February 1931
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- 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
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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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