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Born April 4, 1949 (age 75) • Shantou • China
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1983)
Subjects Of Study differential geometry • elliptic equation
Chern, Shiing-shen
Shiing-shen Chern
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Oswald Veblen
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
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Stephen Smale
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John Willard Milnor, 2011.
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Jesse Douglas
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John Griggs Thompson
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William Paul Thurston
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Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
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Ha Jin
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