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Michael Freedman
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Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
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Michael Freedman is an American mathematician, physicist, and university teacher born in Los Angeles in 1951. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, with William Browder serving as his doctoral advisor. His academic work focuses on mathematics, topology, geometry, and manifolds.
Freedman has been employed by the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California, San Diego, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. His notable work includes contributions to the Poincaré conjecture.
He has received the Sloan Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Fields medal, and the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Ian Agol is listed as his doctoral student.
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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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