John Willard Milnor was born on February 20,1931 and is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems.
19 Facts About John Milnor
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John Milnor was born on February 20,1931, in Orange, New Jersey.
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John Milnor's father was J Willard Milnor an engineer and his mother was Emily Cox Milnor.
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John Milnor remained at Princeton to pursue graduate studies and received his Ph.
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John Milnor was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1970 to 1990.
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John Milnor was an editor of the Annals of Mathematics for a number of years after 1962.
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John Milnor has written a number of books which are famous for their clarity, presentation, and an inspiration for the research by many mathematicians in their areas even after many decades since their publication.
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John Milnor's students have included Tadatoshi Akiba, Jon Folkman, John Mather, Laurent C Siebenmann, Michael Spivak, and Jonathan Sondow.
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John Milnor's wife, Dusa McDuff, is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College and is known for her work in symplectic topology.
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John Milnor coined the term exotic sphere, referring to any n-sphere with nonstandard differential structure.
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Kervaire and John Milnor initiated the systematic study of exotic spheres, showing in particular that the 7-sphere has 15 distinct differentiable structures.
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In 1961 John Milnor disproved the Hauptvermutung by illustrating two simplicial complexes that are homeomorphic but combinatorially distinct, using the concept of Reidemeister torsion.
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John Milnor cast his eye on dynamical systems theory in the mid-1970s.
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John Milnor's approach was to start over from the very beginning, looking at the simplest nontrivial families of maps.
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John Milnor's work has opened several new directions in this field, and has given us many basic concepts, challenging problems and nice theorems.
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John Milnor was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.
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In 1962 John Milnor was awarded the Fields Medal for his work in differential topology.
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John Milnor was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1963 and the American Philosophical Society 1965.
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John Milnor later went on to win the National Medal of Science, the Lester R Ford Award in 1970 and again in 1984, the Leroy P Steele Prize for "Seminal Contribution to Research", the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Leroy P Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, and the Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.