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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

John Milnor

John Milnor publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Mathematics and Applications, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals and Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems.

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World rank
#5,951
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,861
of 358,040
Works
57
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
29.3

What does John Milnor research?

Geometry and Topology: 37.0%Mathematical Physics: 20.5%Applied Mathematics: 8.2%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 8.2%other fields: 26.1%37%top field
Geometry and Topology37.0%Mathematical Physics20.5%Applied Mathematics8.2%Computational Theory and Mathematics8.2%other fields26.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geometry and Topology37% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics20% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics8% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics8% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Theoretical Computer Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Milnor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dynamical Systems, Geometry, Hyperbolic, Chaos, Fractals, Bifurcations, Planar Systems and Deformation Quantization.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Dynamical Systems132 topics
  2. Geometry101 topic
  3. Hyperbolic101 topic
  4. Chaos91 topic
  5. Fractals91 topic
  6. Bifurcations71 topic
  7. Planar Systems71 topic
  8. Deformation Quantization51 topic
  9. Poisson Manifolds51 topic
  10. Historical Sources41 topic
  11. Knot Invariants41 topic
  12. Lagrangian Coherent Structures41 topic
  13. Mathematics Education41 topic
  14. Quantum Chaos41 topic
  15. Symplectic Topology41 topic
  16. Optimal Transport31 topic
  17. Ricci Curvature31 topic

Where does John Milnor work?

John Milnor's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Milnor have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 1,670 citations for John Milnor, ranking #5,951 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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