René Thom
French mathematician (1923–2002)
Died aged 79VirgoFrance
Biography
René Frédéric Thom (French: [ʁəne tɔm]; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as the founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Christopher Zeeman).
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- chairperson
Employers / organisations
- Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- Grenoble Alpes University
- National Center for Scientific Research
- University of Strasbourg
Notable works
- catastrophe theory
- Dold–Thom theorem
- Thom–Sebastiani Theorem
- Thom isomorphism
- Thom conjecture
- Thom space
- Thom's first isotopy lemma
- Thom's second isotopy lemma
- cobordism
Family
- Children
- Françoise Thom
Awards & honours (4)
- Fields medal
- Brouwer Medal
- National Order of Scientific Merit
- Prix de l'Etat
Quick answers about René Thom
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- René Thom died on October 25, 2002 at the age of 79.
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- René Thom was born on September 2, 1923.
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- René Thom was born in Montbéliard.
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- René Thom's zodiac sign is Virgo.
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- René Thom is a citizen of France.
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- René Thom is known as mathematician, university teacher.
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- Wikidata lists 1 child of René Thom.
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