George Daniel Mostow was an American mathematician, born in Boston, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. He was the Henry Ford II emeritus professor of mathematics at Yale University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 49th president of the American Mathematical Society from 1987 to 1988, and a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1982 to 1992. The rigidity phenomenon for lattices in Lie groups that he discovered, known as Mostow rigidity, played an essential role in the work of three Fields medallists: Grigori Margulis, William Thurston and Grigori Perelman.
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