Michael Freedman

Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1951 · age 75

Michael Hartley Freedman 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 R4 manifold exists.

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2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward1994Guggenheim FellowshipAward1987National Medal of ScienceAward1986Fields medalAwardOswald Veblen Prize in GeometryAward1984MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1980Sloan FellowshipAward1951Born21 April 1951