Michael Spivak
Michael Spivak | |
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Spivak in 1974 | |
| Born | May 25, 1940 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 2020 (aged 80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize for Expository Writing (1985) |
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| Thesis | On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Milnor |
Michael David Spivak (May 25, 1940 – October 1, 2020) was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, which won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for expository writing in 1985.