Michael Spivak
American mathematician (1940–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael David Spivak[1] (May 25, 1940 – October 1, 2020)[2][3] was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, which won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for expository writing in 1985.
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Born | (1940-05-25)May 25, 1940 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
Died | October 1, 2020(2020-10-01) (aged 80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize for Expository Writing (1985) |
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Thesis | On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | John Milnor |
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