Michael Freedman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Freedman

Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1951

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture.
Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.