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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 243,104 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Freedman is the 554th most popular mathematician (up from 572nd in 2019), the 4,803rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,818th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Freedman ranks 554 out of 823Before him are Sylvestre François Lacroix, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Jai Singh II, Solomon Lefschetz, Ian Stewart, and Johann Baptist Cysat. After him are Evgraf Fedorov, Theodosius of Bithynia, Johann Radon, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Max August Zorn, and Cahit Arf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Michael Freedman ranks 216Before him are Börje Salming, Jimi Jamison, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilbert Baker, Dennis Frederiksen, and Gordon Liu. After him are Musa Manarov, Izhar Cohen, Waldir Peres, Maithripala Sirisena, Isa Mustafa, and Hans-Jürgen Dörner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 4,803 out of 18,182Before him are Connie Willis (1945), Johnny Thunders (1952), Aldo Leopold (1887), Travis Barker (1975), John Elkann (1976), and Debbie Allen (1950). After him are John Hay (1838), Signe Toly Anderson (1941), Judy Collins (1939), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Nate Thurmond (1941), and Dianne Feinstein (1933).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Michael Freedman ranks 35Before him are William Thurston (1946), Haskell Curry (1900), Isadore Singer (1924), Robert Axelrod (1943), Harold Hotelling (1895), and Richard Montague (1930). After him are Benjamin Peirce (1809), Ronald Graham (1935), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), and Oswald Veblen (1880).