About Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently is Professor Emeritus, with research interests in algorithms, numerical analysis and global analysis. Yet again, Smale performed poorly in his first years, earning a C average as a graduate student. Smale is also known for injecting Morse theory into mathematical economics, as well as recent explorations of various theories of computation. From 2003 to 2012, Smale was a professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; starting August 1, 2009, he became a Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
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