Michael Eaton Gage is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the

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. He is known for his work on the

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, and in particular for the Gage–Hamilton–Grayson theorem, proved by Gage with

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and Matthew Grayson, which describes the behavior of any

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under the curve-shortening flow. He is also one of the original developers of the

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online homework delivery system. Gage did his undergraduate studies at

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, and completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University in 1978, under the supervision of

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. He has worked as a systems programmer for

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,. and joined the Rochester faculty in 1984. Gage was the 1996–1997 winner of the distinguished teaching award of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America..

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