René Thom
René Frédéric Thom (French: [ʁəne tɔm]; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
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| Born | 2 September 1923 Montbéliard, France |
| Died | 25 October 2002 (aged 79) Bures-sur-Yvette, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris |
| Known for | Catastrophe theory Cobordism Gradient conjecture Quasi-fibration Splitting lemma Thom conjecture Thom isomorphism Thom space Thom transversality theorem Thom's first isotopy lemma Thom–Porteous formula Thom–Sebastiani Theorem Dold–Thom theorem |
| Children | Françoise Thom |
| Awards | Fields Medal (1958) Brouwer Medal (1970) John von Neumann Lecture Prize (1976) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Strasbourg Université Joseph Fourier Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Thesis | Espaces fibrés en sphères et carrés de Steenrod (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henri Cartan |
| Doctoral students | David Trotman |
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 founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Christopher Zeeman).
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