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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Parables, parabolas and catastrophes
- La magie contemporaine
- La Teoria delle catastrofi
- Prédire n'est pas expliquer
- La Philosophie des sciences aujourd'hui
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- England
- Active from
- 1968-10-07
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gaussian basis sets for use in correlated molecular calculations. I. The atoms boron through neon and hydrogen
· 1989 · cited 30,129x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,410x
- Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions
· 1992 · cited 14,783x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,019x
- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,207x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1923-09-02 ) 2 September 1923, Montbéliard , France
- Died
- 25 October 2002 (2002-10-25) (aged 79), Bures-sur-Yvette , France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure , University of Paris
- Known for
- Catastrophe theory , Cobordism , Gradient conjecture , Quasi-fibration , Splitting lemma , Thom conjecture , Thom isomorphism , Thom space , Thom transversality theorem , Thom's first isotopy lemma , Thom–Porteous formula , Thom–Sebastiani Theorem , Dold–Thom theorem
- Children
- Françoise Thom
- Awards
- Fields Medal (1958) , Brouwer Medal (1970), John von Neumann Lecture Prize (1976)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Strasbourg , Université Joseph Fourier , Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- Thesis
- Espaces fibrés en sphères et carrés de Steenrod (1951)
- Doctoral advisor
- Henri Cartan
- Doctoral students
- David Trotman
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- date of birth
- 1923-09-02
- date of death
- 2002-10-25
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- Erdős number
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- name in native language
- René Thom
- birth name
- René Frédéric Thom
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Article
René Frédéric Thom ( French: [ʁəne tɔm]; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as the founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Christopher Zeeman).