John Mather Receives 2003 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---John Mather of Princeton University is receiving the 2003 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Birkhoff Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Mather is being honored as a mathematician of exceptional depth, power, and originality. Some of his earliest work in topology has had important applications in economics and physics. He has also made major contributions to dynamical systems theory, including the Newtonian 4-body problem.

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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