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Peter Kronheimer

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Peter Kronheimer · Science & Medicine

What

Gauge theory and low-dimensional topology

When

1963

Where

United Kingdom · United States

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Biography

Peter Kronheimer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Gauge theory and low-dimensional topology

How & why

Kronheimer is a British mathematician at Harvard, known with Tomasz Mrowka for deep results in gauge theory and low-dimensional topology, including a proof of the Thom conjecture and the book Monopoles and Three-Manifolds. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he trained under Michael Atiyah at Oxford. Widely available biographies document his mathematics but do not record a Jewish identity; he appears on a subject roster of Jews in mathematics.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Gauge theory and low-dimensional topology

1963

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics