John Mather (mathematician)
- John Mather (mathematician)
:"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.
His early work dealt with the stability of smooth mappings between smooth manifolds of dimensions n (for the source manifold N) and p (for the target manifold P). He determined the precise dimensions (n,p) for which smooth mappings are stable with respect to smooth equivalence by diffeomorphisms of the source and target (i.e. infinitely differentiable coordinate changes). He also proved the conjecture of Rene Thom that under topological equivalence smooth mappings are generically stable: the subset of the space of smooth mappings between two smooth manifolds consisting of the topologically stable mappings is a dense subset in the smooth Whitney topology.
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.
ee also
* List of members of the National Academy of Sciences
External links
* [http://www.math.princeton.edu/CV/MatherCV.pdf pdf CV at Princeton]
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