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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Stephen Smale

Born: July 15, 1930 (age 95)
Bio: Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. His research concerns topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics.
Known for:
- The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale (2000)
- Complexity and Real Computation (1998)
- The mathematics of time (1980)