| Date of Birth | 02-September-1923 | |
| Place of Birth |
Montbéliard (Doubs, Franche-Comté, France) |
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| Nationality | France | |
| Also know as | Rene Thom, Thom | |
| Profession | Mathematician | |
| René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician. 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 founder of catastrophe theory. He received the Fields Medal in 1958. | ||
Awards by René Thom |
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1958 |
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