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Michael Spivak
Michael Spivak | |
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 Spivak in 1974 | |
| Born | May 25, 1940 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 2020 (aged 80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize for Expository Writing (1985) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Milnor |
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.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
genealogywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "1985 Steele Prizes Awarded at Summer Meeting in Laramie" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 32 (243): 576. October 1985. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
- ^ Beeton, Barbara (2021). "Michael D. Spivak, 1940–2020" (PDF). TUGboat. 42 (3): 226–227. doi:10.47397/tb/42-3/tb132beeton-spivak. S2CID 244121636. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
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