Michael Freedman

Michael Freedman
Freedman in 2010
Born
Michael Hartley Freedman

April 21, 1951 (1951-04-21) (age 73)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materPrinceton University (PhD)
Known forWork on the Generalized Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4
Systolic geometry
E8 manifold
NLTS conjecture
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship (1980)
MacArthur Fellowship (1984)
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1986)
Fields Medal (1986)
National Medal of Science (1987)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1994)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMicrosoft Station Q
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
Institute for Advanced Study
UC Berkeley
Thesis Codimension-Two Surgery  (1973)
Doctoral advisorWilliam Browder
Doctoral studentsIan Agol
Zhenghan Wang

Michael Hartley Freedman (born April 21, 1951) is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.

  1. ^ Microsoft Station Q Group at UCSB. (Station Q at the Wayback Machine (archived January 29, 2008))