What is Stephen Smale?
[[File:Stephen Smale 2008 (re-scanned).jpg|thumb|250px|Smale in 2008]] '''Stephen Smale''' (born July 15, 1930) is an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He is known for his research in [[topology]], [[dynamical system]]s and [[mathematical economics]]. He spent more than 30 years on the mathematics faculty of the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1960–1961 and 1964–1995). He was awarded the [[Fields Medal]] in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/how-math-got-its-nobel-.html?_r=0|author=Barany, Michael J.|title=How Math Got Its 'Nobel'|date=August 8, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 9, 2020}}</ref> In 2007, Smale was awarded the [[Wolf Prize]] in mathematics. He was born in [[Flint, Michigan]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{MathGenealogy|id=5086}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Smale, Stephen}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:American geometers]] [[Category:Fields Medalists]] [[Category:People from Flint, Michigan]] [[Category:Wolf Prize winners]] [[Category:Topologists]] {{US-bio-stub}} {{Authority control}}