Awards & Winners

Michael Freedman

Date of Birth 21-April-1951
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Michael H. Freedman, Michael Hartley Freedman
Profession Mathematician
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 Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.

Awards by Michael Freedman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Freedman.

1987


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his proof of the Poincare Conjecture in dimension four: a toplogical four-manifold is homeomorphic to S4[4th power] it it is homotopy equivalent to S4 [4th power], one of the greatest achievemnets in mathematics in this century.)

1986


Fields Medal
(For his work on the Poincaré conjecture.)