Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

male, 43 years old
scientist, Jewish, Riemannian geometry, Poincaré conjecture, Fields Medal, Geometrization conjecture…Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Russian...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…Poincaré conjecture, Poincare group
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...

Richard Hamilton

male, 66 years old
Columbia University, National Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Poincaré conjecture, Clay Research Award, Geometrization conjecture
Richard Streit Hamilton is professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning...
Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

male, 79 years old (Flint, Michigan, United States)
University of Chicago, nuclear physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Erdős number 4, Wolf Prize recipient, Poincaré conjecture
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the...
Michael Freedman

Michael Freedman

male, 58 years old
Microsoft Research, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, Poincaré conjecture
Michael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Research. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, o...

Bruce Kleiner

male
Yale University, Ricci flow, Xi-Ping Zhu, John Morgan, Wu-Yi Hsiang, Huai-Dong Cao…Geometrization conjecture, Poincaré conjecture
Bruce Kleiner is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and topology and geometric group theory. He received his Ph.D. in 1990...

Huai-Dong Cao

male
Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, Lehigh University, mathematician…Poincaré conjecture
Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu of Zhongshan University in...
Martin Dunwoody

Martin Dunwoody

male, 71 years old
mathematician, British, mathematics, Poincaré conjecture, geometric group theory, Professor Martin J. Dunwoody
Professor Martin J. Dunwoody is professor of mathematics at the University of Southampton, England. Dunwoody is working on geometric group theory...
Christos Papakyriakopoulos

Christos Papakyriakopoulos

male, deceased (1976)
Princeton University, Dehn's lemma, sphere theorem, Veblen Prize in Geometry, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos…Poincaré conjecture
Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos, commonly known as "Papa" was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology. He worked in isolation...
Andrew Casson

Andrew Casson

male, 66 years old
Yale University, topologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Erdős number 3, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Poincaré conjecture
Andrew John Casson FRS (born 1943) is a British mathematician, an expert on geometric topology and currently the chair of the Department of...