Smale
Proper noun
Meaning
Smale (plural Smales)
A surname.
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His first contribution is the Smale horseshoe that jumpstarted significant research in dynamical systems.
His first contribution is the Smale horseshoe that started significant research in dynamical systems.
However, with some luck, Smale was accepted as a graduate student at the University of Michigan's mathematics department.
Earlier in his career, Smale was involved in controversy over remarks he made regarding his work habits while proving the higher-dimensional Poincaré conjecture.
Smale conjectured that if M is an oriented smooth closed manifold, the identity component of the group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms is simple.
This closely related set of problems has been cited by Stephen Smale as among the 18 greatest unsolved problems of the 21st century.