Vladimir Drinfeld

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Vladimir Drinfeld
Born (1954-02-14) February 14, 1954 (age 70)
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Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (

USSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago
.

Drinfeld's work connected

elliptic module and the theory of the geometric Langlands correspondence. Drinfeld introduced the notion of a quantum group (independently discovered by Michio Jimbo at the same time) and made important contributions to mathematical physics, including the ADHM construction of instantons, algebraic formalism of the quantum inverse scattering method, and the Drinfeld–Sokolov reduction in the theory of solitons
.

He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990.[1] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[2] In 2018 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[3] In 2023 he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.[4]

Biography

Drinfeld was born into a

International Mathematics Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania, and won a gold medal with the full score of 40 points. He was, at the time, the youngest participant to achieve a perfect score, a record that has since been surpassed by only four others including Sergei Konyagin and Noam Elkies. Drinfeld entered Moscow State University in the same year and graduated from it in 1974. Drinfeld was awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1978 and the Doctor of Sciences degree from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 1988. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. From 1981 till 1999 he worked at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering (Department of Mathematical Physics). Drinfeld moved to the United States in 1999 and has been working at the University of Chicago
since January 1999.

Contributions to mathematics

In 1974, at the age of twenty, Drinfeld announced a proof of the

Hecke operators
.

Drinfeld has also worked in

Drinfeld twists, which can be used to factorize the R-matrix corresponding to the solution of the Yang–Baxter equation associated with a quasitriangular Hopf algebra
.

Drinfeld has also collaborated with

geometric Langlands program. Drinfeld and Beilinson published their work in 2004 in a book titled "Chiral Algebras."[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. "Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld". Biographies. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  2. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
  3. ^ Jerusalem Post - Wolf Prizes 2018
  4. ^ Shaw Prize 2023
  5. ^ Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld
  6. OCLC 53896661
    .

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