Laurent C. Siebenmann | |
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Born | 1939 |
Alma mater | University of Toronto Princeton University |
Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Paris-Sud |
Doctoral advisor | John Milnor |
Doctoral students |
Laurent Carl Siebenmann (the first name is sometimes spelled Laurence or Larry) (born 1939) is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France.
After working for several years as a Professor at Orsay he became a Directeur de Recherches at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1976. He is a topologist who works on manifolds and who co-discovered the Kirby–Siebenmann class.