Fields Medal 1958: Winners

Recipients

1. Klaus Friedrich Roth

   Math

   for solving a famous problem of number theory, namely, the determination of the exact exponent in the Thue-Siegel inequality

2. René Thom

   Math

   for creating the theory of 'Cobordisme' which has, within the few years of its existence, led to the most penetrating insight into the topology of differentiable manifolds.