Michael David Fried is an American mathematician working in the geometry and arithmetic of families of nonsingular projective curve covers.
He then received his PhD from University of Michigan in Mathematics in 1967 under Donald John Lewis.
[1] He spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study (1967–1969).
He has been an editor on several mathematics journals including the Research Announcements of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and the Journal of Finite Fields and its Applications.
He was included in the inaugural (2013) class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.