10 Facts About Daniel Quillen

Daniel Gray Quillen was an American mathematician.

Daniel Quillen is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.

Daniel Quillen entered Harvard University, where he earned both his AB, in 1961, and his PhD in 1964; the latter completed under the supervision of Raoul Bott, with a thesis in partial differential equations.

Daniel Quillen obtained a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after completing his doctorate.

Daniel Quillen spent a number of years at several other universities.

In 1978, Daniel Quillen received a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Helsinki.

Daniel Quillen died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on April 30,2011, aged 70.

Daniel Quillen's best known contribution was his formulation of higher algebraic K-theory in 1972.

Daniel Quillen worked on complex cobordism, showing that its formal group law is essentially the universal one.

Daniel Quillen was an architect of rational homotopy theory.