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Michael Freedman
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Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
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Michael Hartley Freedman is an American mathematician, physicist, and university teacher born in Los Angeles in 1951. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University. His academic career includes positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California, San Diego, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied under William Browder and has supervised doctoral students including Ian Agol.
Freedman’s work focuses on mathematics, topology, geometry, and manifolds. He is notably associated with the Poincaré conjecture. He holds membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. His awards include the Fields medal, the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Sloan Fellowship, and the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. He speaks English and has an Erdős number of 3.
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Hartley Freedman , April 21, 1951 ( 1951-04-21 ) (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)
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- physicist
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Poincaré conjecture
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- William Browder
- Student of
- William Browder
- Field of work
- manifold
- Image
- Michael Freedman 2010.jpg
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- Commons category
- Michael Freedman
- date of birth
- 1951-04-21
- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- Erdős number
- 3
- student
- Ian Agol
- name in native language
- Michael Freedman
- birth name
- Michael Hartley Freedman
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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 R manifold exists.
Life and career
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