List of Famous people with last name Floer

Andreas Floer

First Name Andreas

Last Name Floer

Born on August 23, 1956

Died on May 15, 1991 (aged 34)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Andreas Floer was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to symplectic topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. Floer's first pivotal contribution was a solution of a special case of Arnold's conjecture on fixed points of a symplectomorphism. Because of his work on Arnold's conjecture and his development of instanton homology, he achieved wide recognition and was invited as a plenary speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto in August 1990. He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1989.

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Richard Floer

First Name Richard

Last Name Floer

Born on April 11, 1767

Died on August 28, 1822 (aged 55)

Born in Norway, Innlandet

Richard Floer was a Norwegian mining official and military officer who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly.

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