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unusual facts about Michael Freedman


Michael Freedman

His mother, Nancy Mars Freedman, performed as an actress and also trained as an artist.


Hauptvermutung

For compact simply-connected manifolds of dimension 4 Simon Donaldson found examples with an infinite number of inequivalent PL structures, and Michael Freedman found the E8 manifold which not only has no PL structure, but is not even homeomorphic to a simplicial complex.

Topological quantum computer

In 2005, Sankar Das Sarma, Michael Freedman, and Chetan Nayak proposed a quantum Hall device which would realize a topological qubit.


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