Key facts
- Born
- Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov , ( 1969-07-26 ) July 26, 1969 (age 56) , Moscow , Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Moscow State University ( BS , PhD )
- Awards
- EMS Prize (2004) , Fields Medal (2006) , Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2026)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Columbia University , National Research University – Higher School of Economics , Princeton University , University of California, Berkeley , University of Chicago
- Doctoral advisor
- Alexandre Kirillov
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrej
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Alexandre Kirillov
- Field of work
- algebraic geometry
- Official website
- web.math.princeton.edu/~okounkov
- Image
- Andrei Okounkov 2018.jpg
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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- Andrei Okounkov
- date of birth
- 1969-07-26
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Окунько́в, Andrej Okun'kov, born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at Columbia University and the academic supervisor of HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics. In 2006, he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."
Education and career
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