René Thom

Ren? Thom (September 2, 1923 ? October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician and founder of the catastrophe theory. He received the Fields Medal in 1958.

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Ren? Thom was born in Montb?liard, France. He was educated at Lyc?e Saint-Louis and ?cole Normale Sup?rieure and went on to teach at Grenoble and Strasbourg.

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While he is most known to the public for his development of catastrophe theory between 1968 and 1972, his earlier work was on differential topology. It concerned what are now called Thom spaces, characteristic classes, cobordism theory, and the Thom transversality theorem. He then moved into singularity theory, of which catastrophe theory is just one aspect.

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