Daniel Quillen (1940 to 2011) was an American mathematician known as the prime architect of higher algebraic K-theory, work for which he won the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. He introduced the Quillen Q-construction, proved the Quillen-Suslin theorem, and made foundational contributions to rational homotopy theory and the theory of model categories.
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1978 Pierre René Deligne Charles Louis Fefferman Gregori Alexandrovitch Margulis Daniel G. Quillen
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He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.
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Daniel Gray Quillen (June 22, 1940, April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.
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