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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

space. Another approach to this fundamental result was given earlier by René Thom in 1969. David Trotman showed in his 1977 Warwick thesis that a stratification...

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

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...

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...

Isadore Singer Stephen Smale Edwin Spanier Norman Steenrod Dennis Sullivan René Thom Hiroshi Toda Leopold Vietoris Hassler Whitney J. H. C. Whitehead Gordon...

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...

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...

including Barry Smith, W. V. O. Quine, David Armstrong, Ruth Barcan Marcus, René Thom, and twelve others, published a letter of protestation in The Times of...

work was heavily influenced by the mathematical catastrophe theory of René Thom. However, some critics have questioned how Dalí could have executed a...

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...