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Stephen Smale is an American author and mathematician born on July 15, 1930. His published works include *Dynamical systems and the topological conjugacy problem for diffeomorphisms*, *Stable manifolds for differential equations and diffemorphisms*, and *Diffeomorphisms with many periodic points*. He also authored *Differential equations, dynamical systems, and an introduction to chaos* and *Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra*.
Smale is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His academic output is documented across various sources, with records indicating five works in one database and ten in another. He has an Erdős number of 4.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Dynamical systems and the topological conjugacy problem for diffeomorphisms
- Stable manifolds for differential equations and diffemorphisms
- Diffeomorphisms with many periodic points
- Differential equations, dynamical systems, and an introduction to chaos
- Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,810x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,074x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,279x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,536x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,117x
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Key facts
- Born
- Stephen Smale , ( 1930-07-15 ) July 15, 1930 (age 95) , Flint, Michigan , U.S.
- Education
- University of Michigan ( BS , PhD )
- Awards
- Wolf Prize (2007), National Medal of Science (1996), Chauvenet Prize (1988) , Fields Medal (1966), Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1966), Sloan Fellowship (1960)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago , City University of Hong Kong , University of Chicago , Columbia University , University of California, Berkeley
- Thesis
- Regular Curves on Riemannian Manifolds (1957)
- Doctoral advisor
- Raoul Bott
- Doctoral students
- Rufus Bowen , César Camacho , Robert L. Devaney , John Guckenheimer , Morris Hirsch , Nancy Kopell , Jacob Palis , Themistocles M. Rassias , James Renegar , Siavash Shahshahani , Mike Shub
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1960–1961 and 1964–1995), where he currently is Professor Emeritus, with research interests in algorithms, numerical analysis and global analysis.
Education and career
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