Rene Frederic Thom (1923 to 2002) was a French mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1958. He made his early reputation as a topologist working on singularity theory, and became known well beyond mathematics as the founder of catastrophe theory, later developed further by Christopher Zeeman.
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He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this
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was a French mathematician
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University of Strasbourg Université Joseph Fourier Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
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1958 Klaus Friedrich Roth René Thom
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