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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. [1] In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture.
Michael Freedman (born April 21, 1951, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his solution of the Poincaré conjecture in four dimensions.
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Michael Freedman is a mathematician and a Fields Medalist who works on topological quantum computing. He has taught at UCSB, Princeton, UCSD, and IAS, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Mathematical Society.
Michael Freedman | Department of Mathematics. Office: Phone: Email: michaelf@microsoft.com. Education. Ph.D., Mathematics, Princeton University, 1973. Honors. Fields Medal. National Medal of Science. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. California Scientist of the Year Award.
Learn about the work of Michael Freedman, a mathematician and Fields Medalist, who is developing quantum computers based on topology at Microsoft Station Q. Watch his lecture on the birthing of the quantum computer and the role of topology in physics.
"[Michael Freedman is] a Fields Medal-winning mathematician whose accomplishments included a proof of the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture, the discovery (with Donaldson and Kirby) of exotic smooth structures on Euclidian 4-space, applications of minimal surfaces to topology, and estimates for the stored energy in magnetic fields…
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Michael Freedman is a leading researcher and innovator in distributed systems, networking, and security. He is the Robert E. Kahn Professor at Princeton University, the co-founder and CTO of Timescale, and the recipient of many awards and honors.
