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René Thom

Date of Birth 02-September-1923
Place of Birth Montbéliard
(Doubs, Franche-Comté, France)
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.

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