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Top works
- Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type
· 2009 · cited 698x
- Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties
· 2021 · cited 109x
- Anti-pluricanonical systems on Fano varieties
· 2019 · cited 99x
- Existence of log canonical flips and a special LMMP
· 2012 · cited 79x
- Effectivity of Iitaka fibrations and pluricanonical systems of polarized pairs
· 2016 · cited 70x
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Quotes
- “In Tehran university, at the math club, where I was studying the pictures of Fields medalists were lining the walls. I looked at them and said to myself, ‘Will I ever meet one of these people?’ At that time in Iran, I couldn’t even know that I’d be able to go to the West.”
- “To go from the point that I didn’t imagine meeting these people to the point where someday I hold a medal myself — I just couldn’t imagine that this would come true.”
- “I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Fereydoun Derakhshani , 1978 (age 47 – 48), Marivan County , Iran
- Citizenship
- Iran , Britain
- Alma mater
- University of Tehran (BSc), University of Nottingham (PhD)
- Awards
- Leverhulme Prize (2010), Moore Prize (2016), Fields Medal (2018)
- Fields
- Algebraic geometry Birational geometry
- Institutions
- Tsinghua University , University of Cambridge
- Thesis
- Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ivan Fesenko Vyacheslav Shokurov
- Website
- ymsc .tsinghua .edu .cn /en /info /1031 /1892 .htm
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Encyclopedic overview
Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Kurdish: فەرەیدوون درەخشانی، Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". In his office at the university, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caucher Birkar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.