René Frédéric Thom (French: [ʁəne tɔm]; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958. He made...

In mathematics, the Thom space, Thom complex, or Pontryagin–Thom construction (named after René Thom and Lev Pontryagin) of algebraic topology and differential...

final part of a series based on the mathematical catastrophe theory of René Thom. Thom suggested that in four-dimensional phenomena, there are seven possible...

from Maryland René Thom (1923–2002), French mathematician Robert Thom (engineer) (1774–1847), Scottish hydraulic engineer Robert Thom (disambiguation)...

German judoka René Steinke, German actor René Thom (1923–2002), French mathematician René Toribio (1912–1990), Guadeloupean politician René Vydarený (born...

more differential-geometric theory of Whitney. They were introduced by René Thom, who showed that every Whitney stratified space was also a topologically...

In mathematics, the gradient conjecture, due to René Thom (1989), was proved in 2000 by three Polish mathematicians, Krzysztof Kurdyka (University of...

names after René Thom, a "well of potential ". Bruno Pinchard has maintained a constant dialogue with the mathematical work of René Thom. He has sought...

Abhyankar, Michel Kervaire, Marcel Berger, Karl Stein, Reinhold Remmert, René Thom, Serge Lang and Frank Adams. The institutional structure was reinforced...

and those that are boundaries. The theory was originally developed by René Thom for smooth manifolds (i.e., differentiable), but there are now also versions...

thinkers as diverse as Julian Huxley, C. H. Waddington, Alan Turing, René Thom, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Paolozzi, Le Corbusier, Christopher Alexander...

of catastrophe theory, which was due initially to another topologist, René Thom, and for his Christmas lectures about mathematics on television in 1978...

transversality theorem, also known as the Thom transversality theorem after French mathematician René Thom, is a major result that describes the transverse...

theories were a dominating feature of the first ten years at the IHÉS. René Thom received an invitation from IHÉS in 1963 and after his appointment remained...

Catastrophe theory originated with the work of the French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, and became very popular due to the efforts of Christopher...

2022 at the Wayback Machine Report of the Inaugural Session. p. liv "René Thom" (PDF). Robertnowlan.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2016...

for plane curves and implicitly-defined curves have been generalized by René Thom and Vladimir Arnold to curves defined by differentiable functions: a curve...

Rob Delaney Catastrophe theory, a theory by the French mathematician René Thom and the object of its study Cape Catastrophe Catastrophisation Catastrophism...

changes). Mather also proved the conjecture of the French topologist René Thom that under topological equivalence smooth mappings are generically stable:...

in Bures-sur-Yvette, near Paris, where he worked with David Ruelle, René Thom, and Jacob Palis. His friendship with Palis has taken him many times to...

hierarchical, "structuralist" mathematics with the catastrophe theory of René Thom and the fractals of Benoit Mandelbrot, expressing preference for the latter...

Roger Godement, Max Karoubi, Jean-Louis Koszul, Jean-Pierre Serre and René Thom. Cartan's first research interests, until the 40's, were in the theory...

committee's vote for the medal, after the two mathematicians (Klaus Roth and René Thom) who were awarded the medal that year. Although Nash's mental illness...

Lie groups, which he would later call his greatest achievement. With René Thom, he is regarded as one of the co-founders of cobordism theory, and co-discoverers...

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Gustave Choquet, Jacques Dixmier, Roger Godement, René Thom and Jean-Pierre Serre. Denis Auroux, a famous symplectic geometer at Harvard...

an oriented boundary, then σ ( M ) = 0 {\displaystyle \sigma (M)=0} . René Thom (1954) showed that the signature of a manifold is a cobordism invariant...

analysis on the country and its leaders. Françoise Thom was born in Strasbourg, 1951. Her parents are René Thom, a mathematician known for his theory of catastrophes...

manageably, this idea is often applied in geometry. Hassler Whitney and René Thom first defined formal conditions for stratification. See Whitney stratification...

spaces is locally trivial when it is a Thom mapping. Like the first isotopy lemma, the lemma was introduced by René Thom. (Mather 2012, § 11) gives a sketch...

Scientifique Scientific career Fields Mathematics Topology Institutions Institute for Advanced Study University of Strasbourg Doctoral advisor René Thom...