News Release
JEFF CHEEGER WINS
AMS VEBLEN PRIZE
Michael Breen, or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: pa-office@ams.org
Telephone: 401-455-4000
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January 11, 2001
PROVIDENCE, RIóJeff Cheeger, a mathematician at the Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, has won the 2001 Oswald
Veblen Prize. Presented by the American Mathematical Society, the Veblen
Prize is one of the most prestigious awards recognizing outstanding research
in geometry. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics
Meetings in New Orleans.
Professor Cheeger is being honored for his work in differential
geometry.
The prize citation mentions in particular three of his most influential
papers, which appeared in top mathematics journals.
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30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through
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of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday
life.
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