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Michael Spivak

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American mathematician (1940-2020)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1940 to 2020 · aged 80
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Michael David Spivak was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, which won the Leroy P.

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1985Leroy P. Steele Prize

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Michael David Spivak was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, which won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for expository writing in 1985.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1940 to 2020 · aged 80
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