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Alan
BAKER
born August 19, 1939 London
Cambridge University
Generalized the Gelfond-Schneider theorem (the solution to Hilbert's
seventh problem). From this work he generated transcendental numbers
not previously identified.
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Heisuke HIRONAKA
born April 9, 1931, Yamaguchi-ken, Japan
Harvard University
Generalized work of Zariski who had proved for dimension <=3
the theorem concerning the resolution of singularities on an algebraic
variety. Hironaka proved the results in any dimension.
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Serge
NOVIKOV
born March 20, 1938, Gorki, USSR
Belorusskii University
Made important advances in topology, the most well-known being
his proof of the topological invariance of the Pontrjagin classes
of the differentiable manifold. His work included a study of the
cohomology and homotopy of Thom spaces.
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John Griggs
THOMPSON
born October 13, 1932, Kansas, USA
University of Chicago
Proved jointly with W. Feit that all non-cyclic finite simple
groups have even order. The extension of this work by Thompson
determined the minimal simple finite groups, that is, the simple
finite groups whose proper subgroups are solvable.
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This document has been reproduced from
The Website of International Congress of
Mathematicians, Berlin 1998.
Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, G. L.;
Reid, Constance:
International mathematical congresses. An illustrated history
1893 - 1986
Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986
with friendly permission from Springer
Verlag
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