1986 Fields Medal (3)
Reason for Award
Developed new methods for topological analysis of four-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensionalPoincaré Conjecture.
Laureates
Michael H. Freedman,
United States of America
Other works in the same year
- Received medal primarily for his work ontopologyof four-manifolds, especially for showing that there is a differential structure on euclidian four-space which is different from the usual structure.
- Using methods ofarithmetic algebraic geometry, he received medal primarily for his proof of theMordell Conjecture.