American mathematician and computer scientist who won the 1996 Fields Medal for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He is famous for Smale’s horseshoe, Smale’s theorem, amongst other things.
Stephen Smale was born on 15 July, 1930
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Greenpeace Foundation comes into existence
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First Grammy Awards
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