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ANIMATORS Geometry: Used to create the physical appearances of characters and the image frames needed to show the illusion of movement. Linear Algebra: Used to create perspective, rotation and size changes. GEOGRAPHER Quantitative Research: Used to study human interactions, topography and the environment. Graphing: Frequently use maps, charts and tables in their day- to-day work tasks. POLITICAL SCIENTIST Statistics: Political Scientists use statistics to predict the trends in opinion, government needs and voter tendencies. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER Mental Math: Used to quickly and accurately calculate the speed, distance and altitudes of planes to facilitate the landing, take- off and general navigation of several airplanes at once.
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deformed. So, for a topologist, a circle and a square are the same, but the surface of a sphere and that of a donut are different. Topology has been invaluable throughout mathematics and beyond, with significant applications in ields ranging from physics to economics to data science. Sullivan began to work on problems in dynamical systems in the late 1970s, the study of a point moving in a geometrical space, a field usually considered far removed from algebraic topology. The ability of computers to iterate functions beyond what was humanly possible had created an explosion of interest in this field, known popularly as chaos theory since many of the dynamical systems exhibited chaotic behavior. In 1999 Sullivan and Moira Chas discovered a new invariant for a manifold based on loops, creating the field of string topology, an area that has grown rapidly in recent years. Among his significant results in topology is his proof of the Adams conjecture, and in dynamical systems he proved that rational maps have no wandering domains, solving a 60-year-old conjecture. His insistent probing for fundamental understanding, and his capacity to see analogues between diverse areas of mathematics and build bridges between them, has forever changed the field. Dennis P. Sullivan has won numerous awards, among them the Steele Prize, the 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the 2014 Balzan Prize for Mathematics. He is also a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Source: The Abel Prize, Wikipedia
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