Simon Donaldson
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957, in Cambridge, England), is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London.
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