John Milnor

271 total papers · 34.0k total citations
104 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

John Milnor is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Milnor has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Geometry and Topology, 46 papers in Mathematical Physics and 17 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in John Milnor’s work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (26 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (16 papers). John Milnor is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (26 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (16 papers). John Milnor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and France. John Milnor's co-authors include John C. Moore, Edgar H. Brown, James Stasheff, Michel Kervaire, Dale Husemöller, I. N. Herstein, Jean-Pierre Serre, Hyman Bass, Shmuel Friedland and Peter Orlik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Milnor

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Milnor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Milnor based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Milnor. John Milnor is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

John Milnor

82 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by John Milnor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by John Milnor

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