John Milnor
Also known as John Willard Milnor, Jack Milnor
American mathematician
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- Prospects in mathematics
- Prospects in Mathematics. (AM-70), Volume 70
- Differential topology
- The representation rings of some classical groups
- Symmetric Bilinear Forms
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- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,647x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
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John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and the only mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Abel Prize and all three Steele prizes.
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