[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 112 (Friday, July 26, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1387]
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                  A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR STEPHEN SMALE

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 26, 1996

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Mr. Stephen Smale, a constituent and professor emeritus of mathematics 
at the University of California at Berkeley, who received the National 
Medal of Science today from President Clinton and Vice President Gore.
  Proof is abundant that Professor Smale is one of the great minds in 
mathematics of that last few decades: The Veblen Prize for geometry in 
1965, the Chauvenet Prize in 1988 by the Mathematical Association of 
America, the von Neumann Award in 1989 by the Society for Industrial 
and Applied Mathematics, the Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship from 1960 
to 1962, and the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize of 
mathematics.
  Professor Smale's accomplishments span a broad range of topics. He 
has made major discoveries in the fields of topology, mathematical 
economics, and the mathematics of computer computation. He also has 
made significant contributions in the fields of dynamical systems, 
geometry, and operations research.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in congratulating 
Professor Stephen Smale on his receiving the National Medal of Science 
and on his lifetime of achievements.

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