Michael Hutchings (mathematician)

Michael Hutchings
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Known forProof of the double bubble conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorClifford Taubes

Michael Lounsbery Hutchings is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for proving the double bubble conjecture on the shape of two-chambered soap bubbles, and for his work on circle-valued Morse theory and on embedded contact homology, which he defined.

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