1962 Fields Medal (2) | Nobel Prize Net

1962 Fields Medal (2)

Reason for Award

Proved that a 7-dimensionalspherecan have several differential structures; this led to the creation of the field ofdifferential topology.

Laureates

John Willard Milnor, 1931年 - ）

United States of America

Other works in the same year

Worked inpartial differential equations. Specifically, contributed to the general theory of linear differential operators. The questions go back to one ofHilbert's problemsat the 1900 congress.

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