10 Best Mathematicians in The World Today

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7. Michael Atiyah

Michael is an English mathematician who specialized in geometry. He was most famous for his work with his coworker Isadore Singer on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, for which he received the Abel Prize in 2004 and more importantly in 1966 he got the Fields Medal for his work in developing K-theory when he was 37 years old.

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