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Moscow, August 1966: in the course of the International Congress of Mathematicians, or ICM, held every 4 years, the Fields Medal is awarded. Whether or not it is actually the equivalent of the Nobel prize, it is in any case the most prestigious international prize. The year in Moscow the winners are the English Michael Atiyah, the American Paul Cohen, the French Alexander Grothendieck, and the American Steve Smale.
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Guerraggio, A. (2011). Stephen Smale. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_27
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