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Curtis T McMullen (born 21 May 1958) is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He won the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work, particularly in complex dynamics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1980 from Williams College and his Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union, since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Complex dynamics is the study of dynamical systems for which the phase space is a complex manifold. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... Williams College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...


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2002: Lafforgue | Voevodsky || 1998: Borcherds | Gowers | Kontsevich | McMullen || 1994: Zelmanov | Lions | Bourgain | Yoccoz || 1990: Drinfeld | Jones | Mori | Witten
1986: Donaldson | Faltings | Freedman || 1982: Connes | Thurston | Yau || 1978: Deligne | Fefferman | Margulis | Quillen || 1974: Bombieri | Mumford
1970: Baker | Hironaka | Novikov | Thompson || 1966: Atiyah | Cohen | Grothendieck | Smale || 1962: Hörmander | Milnor || 1958: Roth | Thom || 1954: Kodaira | Serre
1950: Schwartz | Selberg || 1936: Ahlfors | Douglas
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union, since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. ... Laurent Lafforgue (born November 6, 1966) is a French mathematician. ... Vladimir Voevodsky (Russian: Владимир Воеводский) (born June 4, 1966) is a Russian mathematician. ... Richard Ewen Borcherds (born November 29, 1959) is a mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras. ... William Timothy Gowers (born November 20, 1963, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a British mathematician. ... Maxim Kontsevich (Russian: Максим Концевич) (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian mathematician. ... Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (born September 7, 1955) is a mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. ... -1... Jean Bourgain (born February 28, 1954, Ostende, Belgium), is a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957) is a French mathematician. ... Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Владимир Гершонович Дринфельд) is a mathematician born February 14, 1954 in Ukraine. ... Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (born 31 December 1952) is a New Zealand mathematician, known for his work on von Neumann algebras, knot polynomials and conformal field theory. ... Shigefumi Mori (森 重文 Mori Shigefumi, born February 23, 1951) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three folds, which is nowadays called as the Mori program among some mathematicians specialized in algebraic geometry. ... Edward Witten at Harvard University Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the leading researchers in string theory (M-theory). ... Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is a mathematician famous for his work on exotic four-dimensional spaces in differential geometry using instantons, and the discovery of new differential invariants. ... Gerd Faltings (born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. ... Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a mathematician at Microsoft Research. ... Alain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France (Paris, France), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee). ... William Paul Thurston (born October 30, 1946) is an American mathematician. ... Shing-Tung Yau at Harvard Law School dining hall Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐; Pinyin: QÄ«u Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. ... Pierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. ... Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned mathematician at Princeton University. ... Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24, 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. ... Daniel Quillen (born June 27, 1940) is an American mathematician, a Fields Medallist, and the current Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. ... Enrico Bombieri (born November 26, 1940) is a Italian mathematician, born in Milan. ... David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. ... Alan Baker (born on August 19, British mathematician. ... Heisuke Hironaka (広中 平祐 Hironaka Heisuke, born April 9, 1931) is a Japanese mathematician. ... Sergei Petrovich Novikov (also Serguei) (Russian: Сергей Петрович Новиков) (b. ... John Griggs Thompson (born 13 Oct 1932) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. ... Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (born 22 April 1929) is a mathematician who was born in London. ... Paul Joseph Cohen (born April 2, 1934) is an American mathematician. ... Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928, Berlin) was one of the most important mathematicians active in the 20th century. ... Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. ... Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. ... John Willard Milnor (b. ... Klaus Friedrich Roth (Roth is pronounced ROW-th) (29 October 1925) is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. ... René Thom (September 2, 1923 - October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician and founder of the catastrophe theory. ... Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦 Kodaira Kunihiko, 16 March 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds; and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. ... Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. ... Laurent Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French mathematician. ... Atle Selberg (born June 17, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. ... Lars Valerian Ahlfors (April 18, 1907 - October 11, 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. ... Jesse Douglas (July 3, 1897 - October 7, 1965) was an American mathematician. ...

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Curtis T. McMullen (436 words)
Curtis T. McMullen has been awarded a medal primarily in recognition of his work in the fields of geometry and "complex dynamics," a branch of the theory of dynamic systems, better known perhaps as chaos theory.
Curtis T. McMullen made a major advance, however, when he showed that it is possible to decide in part on the basis of the Mandelbrot set which associated dynamic system is "hyperbolic" and can therefore be described in more detail.
McMullen's results were suspected already in the sixties, but nobody had previously been able to prove this exact characterization of the Julia set.
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