Maxim Kontsevich
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Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич, IPA: [mɐkˈsʲim ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐnˈtsɛvʲɪtɕ] ⓘ; born 25 August 1964)[1] is a Russian and French[2] mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Shaw Prize and Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015.[3]
Academic career and research
He was born into the family of
The next year he finished the proof and worked on various topics on mathematical physics and in 1992 received his
His work concentrates on geometric aspects of
Honors and awards
In 1998, he won the Fields Medal "for his contributions to algebraic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, including the proof of Witten's conjecture of intersection numbers in moduli spaces of stable curves, construction of the universal Vassiliev invariant of knots, and formal quantization of Poisson manifolds."[5] In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[6] Also in 2012, he was awarded the Shaw Prize.[7] In 2015, he was awarded Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Notes
- ^ "Maxim Kontsevich | Russian mathematician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ Kontsevich received French citizenship in 1999 and remains a dual citizen of both France and his native Russia.
- ^ Chang, Kenneth (23 June 2014). "The Multimillion-Dollar Minds of 5 Mathematical Masters". The New York Times. The New York Times.
- ^ a b Sanders, Robert (October 12, 1994). "A Very Pleasurable Universe". www.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ Opening ceremony. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 1998. Volume I pp.46–48
- ^ New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2011 and 2012. Archived 2012-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, FPP, accessed 1 August 2012
- ^ "The 2012 Prize in Mathematical Sciences: Maxim Kontsevich". Retrieved 29 June 2020.
References
- Fields Medal citation at the website of the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians held in Beijing.
- Taubes, Clifford Henry (1998) "The work of Maxim Kontsevich". In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Berlin, 1998). Doc. Math., Extra Vol. I, 119–126.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Maxim Kontsevich", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Maxim Kontsevich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- AMS Profile of Maxim Kontsevich
- Official Homepage of Maxim Kontsevich
- Videos of Maxim Kontsevich in the AV-Portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology