MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Freedman

1951 - Today

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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. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Freedman has received more than 262,945 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Michael Freedman is the 603rd most popular mathematician (down from 552nd in 2019), the 5,117th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,791st in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

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  • 3.73

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Freedman ranks 603 out of 1,004. Before him are Arend Heyting, Wilhelm Jordan, Diederik Korteweg, Louis J. Mordell, Beppo Levi, and Benjamin Peirce. After him are Harish-Chandra, Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, Luigi Bianchi, Ilia Vekua, and Grete Hermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Michael Freedman ranks 257. Before him are Martin Brest, Jakup Krasniqi, Tonie Marshall, David Patrick Kelly, Lee Nak-yeon, and Roscoe Tanner. After him are Stephen Root, Kim Young-ae, Zalmay Khalilzad, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Marijan Beneš, and Patrick Allen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 5,117 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Pollak (1957), Gregg Henry (1952), Dann Florek (1950), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Roscoe Tanner (1951), and Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911). After him are Megan Thee Stallion (1995), Jake Paul (1997), Selma Blair (1972), Stanley Williams (1953), Casper Van Dien (1968), and Dennis Meadows (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 37. Before him are Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), Louis J. Mordell (1888), and Benjamin Peirce (1809). After him are Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Harold Hotelling (1895), Oswald Veblen (1880), and Saunders Mac Lane (1909).

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