Ronald Alan Fintushel (born 1945) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional geometric topology (specifically of 4-manifolds) and the mathematics of gauge theory.
[1] In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton with thesis Orbit maps of local
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker, with Ronald J. Stern, with talk Construction of smooth 4-manifolds at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
[3] In 1997 Fintushel received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University.
Fintushel is a member of the editorial boards of Geometry & Topology and the Michigan Mathematical Journal.