Dusa McDuff
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Dusa McDuff is a prominent British-American mathematician renowned for her foundational contributions to symplectic geometry and topology.
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| Dusa McDuff canonical | 14 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dusa McDuff Context triple: [Emmy Noether Lecture, hasNotableLecturer, Dusa McDuff]
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A.
Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan is an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in topology, dynamical systems, and geometry.
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William Thurston
William Thurston was a pioneering American mathematician renowned for his revolutionary contributions to low-dimensional topology and geometry, including the geometrization conjecture for 3-manifolds.
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C.
Boris Gromov
Boris Gromov is a retired Soviet general and Russian politician best known for commanding the 40th Army in Afghanistan and being the last Soviet commander to withdraw troops from the country in 1989.
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D.
John Milnor
John Milnor is an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, and is one of the most influential figures in modern mathematics.
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E.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dusa McDuff Target entity description: Dusa McDuff is a prominent British-American mathematician renowned for her foundational contributions to symplectic geometry and topology.
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A.
Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan is an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in topology, dynamical systems, and geometry.
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B.
William Thurston
William Thurston was a pioneering American mathematician renowned for his revolutionary contributions to low-dimensional topology and geometry, including the geometrization conjecture for 3-manifolds.
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C.
Boris Gromov
Boris Gromov is a retired Soviet general and Russian politician best known for commanding the 40th Army in Afghanistan and being the last Soviet commander to withdraw troops from the country in 1989.
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D.
John Milnor
John Milnor is an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, and is one of the most influential figures in modern mathematics.
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E.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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mathematician ⓘ person ⓘ symplectic geometer ⓘ topologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Introduction to Symplectic Topology
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J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
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linked to:
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics ⓘ Satter Prize in Mathematics ⓘ
linked to:
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
Senior Berwick Prize ⓘ
linked to:
Berwick Prize
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| birthDate | 1945-10-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| coAuthor |
Ana Cannas da Silva
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Dietmar Salamon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | George A. Reid ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Somerville College, Oxford
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University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
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| employer |
Barnard College
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| familyName | McDuff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
differential geometry
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mathematical physics ⓘ symplectic geometry ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret Dusa ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
research mathematician
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university professor ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern symplectic topology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Dusa McDuff ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
foundational contributions to symplectic topology
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pioneering work in symplectic geometry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
McDuff–Salamon theory of J-holomorphic curves
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foundational contributions to symplectic topology ⓘ work on Gromov–Witten invariants ⓘ work on Hamiltonian group actions ⓘ work on symplectic embeddings ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College
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professor of mathematics ⓘ |
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