John Milnor, Abel Prize 2011

2011/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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American mathematician John Milnor will receive the Abel award this year. He is 80 years old and currently Stony Brook is a professor at the University in New York. He has worked in the field of differential topology and has already received the greatest prizes in mathematics for these investigations. In 1962 he received the Fields medal and in 1989 the Wolf.

The Abel prize was awarded this year for "Pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra". Following this phrase, the best-known works are the Fary-Milnor theorem and the investigation of exotic spheres. Both works are included in the research of spaces of more than three dimensions in the field of topology. In fact, Milnor demonstrated that there are mathematically exotic spheres of seven dimensions, i.e. non-standard spheres of seven dimensions. The mathematical behavior of the sphere varies according to the type of calculation used. This feature does not occur with three-dimensional spheres, but it opened a broad line of research within topology. According to experts XX. The mathematics of the second half of the century was configured by Milnor, along with a few other mathematicians of the same level.