Stephen Smale

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Stephen Smale is an American mathematician renowned for his work in topology, dynamical systems, and mathematical economics, and as a recipient of the Fields Medal.

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instanceOf Fields Medalist
dynamical systems theorist
human
mathematician
topologist
areaOfInfluence 20th-century mathematics
21st-century mathematics
awardReceived Fields Medal
Leroy P. Steele Prize
National Medal of Science
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt University of Michigan
employer City University of Hong Kong
IBM Research
University of California, Berkeley
Yale University
familyName Smale
fieldOfWork differential topology
dynamical systems
mathematical economics
numerical analysis
theoretical computer science
topology
gender male
givenName Stephen
influenced computational mathematics
dynamical systems theory
modern chaos theory
influencedBy Henri Poincaré
John Milnor
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
name Stephen Smale
nationality American
notableIdea Smale’s 18 problems
global analysis methods in dynamics
structural stability in dynamical systems
notableWork Smale horseshoe
Smale’s paradox
h-cobordism theorem contributions
work on dynamical systems and chaos
occupation researcher
university professor

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Stephen Smale ("Smale")
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Stephen Smale
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Albert W. Tucker
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