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Michael Freedman

1951 - Today

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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 R4 manifold exists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Freedman is the 615th most popular mathematician (down from 603rd in 2019), the 5,443rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,116th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Freedman ranks 615 out of 1,004. Before him are Karol Borsuk, Marc-Antoine Parseval, James Ivory, Al-Birjandi, Shigefumi Mori, and David Ruelle. After him are Kushyar Gilani, Martin Ohm, Eduard Čech, Ilia Vekua, Francesco Faà di Bruno, and Alexander Gelfond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Michael Freedman ranks 264. Before him are Biff Byford, Shigefumi Mori, Kim Young-ae, David Johnson, André Aciman, and Lee Nak-yeon. After him are Tatyana Kazankina, Mario Boljat, Gordon Liu, Charles E. Brady Jr., Bill Bryson, and Ana Belén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 5,443 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Reidpath (1889), John Hay (1838), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Spencer Johnson (1938), and David A. R. White (1970). After him are Dennis Lehane (1965), John Lurie (1952), Rick James (1948), Richard Kiley (1922), James Russo (1953), and Florence Lee (1888).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 43. Before him are Andrew M. Gleason (1921), Ronald Graham (1935), Isadore Singer (1924), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), and Saunders Mac Lane (1909). After him are Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Haskell Curry (1900), Oswald Veblen (1880), Richard Montague (1930), Harold Hotelling (1895), and Ken Ribet (1948).

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