Nationality American Role Mathematician Name Michael Freedman | Doctoral advisor William Browder Parents Benedict Freedman | |
Born Michael Hartley Freedman
April 21, 1951 (age 72)
Los Angeles, California, U.S. ( 1951-04-21 ) Institutions Microsoft Station Q
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
Institute for Advanced Study
UC Berkeley Alma mater Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley Known for Work on the Poincare conjecture in dimension 4 Books Topology of 4-manifolds Education Princeton University (1973), University of California, Berkeley Grandparents David Freedman, Beatrice Goodman Freedman Uncles David Noel Freedman, Toby Freedman Similar People Frank Quinn, Ian Agol, John Charles Fields, Nancy Freedman, Bill Gates | ||
Doctoral students Ian Agol
Feng Luo | ||
Thoughts on quantum computing with michael freedman
Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951) is an American mathematician, at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.
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- Thoughts on quantum computing with michael freedman
- Michael freedman manifold pairings and quantum gravity
- Life and career
- Publications
- References
Michael freedman manifold pairings and quantum gravity
Life and career
Freedman was born in Los Angeles, California, U.S. His father, Benedict Freedman, was an aeronautical engineer, musician, writer, and mathematician. His mother, Nancy Mars Freedman, performed as an actress and also trained as an artist. His parents cowrote a series of novels together. He entered the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968, and continued his studies at Princeton University where he received Ph.D. degree in 1973 for his doctoral dissertation titled Codimension-Two Surgery, written under the supervision of William Browder. After graduating, Freedman was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He held this post from 1973 until 1975, when he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton. In 1976 he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California San Diego. He spent the year 1980/81 at IAS, returning to UC San Diego, where in 1982 he was promoted to professor. He was appointed the Charles Lee Powell chair of mathematics at UC San Diego in 1985.
Freedman has received numerous other awards and honors including Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Mathematical Society. He currently works at Microsoft Station Q at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where his team is involved in the development of the topological quantum computer.
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