John Mather (mathematician)

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For the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006, see: John C. Mather

For the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1723-28, see John Mather (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford).

John N. Mather (born 9 June 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. He is descended from Atherton Mather, a cousin of Cotton Mather.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the John J. Carty Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1978 and the Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics in 2003.

[edit] See also

• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences

[edit] External links

• pdf CV at Princeton