Deane Montgomery
American mathematician and President of the International Mathematical Union (1975–1978).
Matters to this vault as the IMU officer who, per Olli Lehto's official IMU history, appointed Armand Borel as Consultative Committee chairman over Pontryagin's objection and chaired the Fields Medal Committee that selected Grigory Margulis in 1978 — a second Pontryagin antagonist, alongside K. Chandrasekharan, in the same institutional episode.
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