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Also known as Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis, Grigori Margulis, Gregory A. Margulis, Gregory Margulis

Russian mathematician

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Ukraine
Active from
1928-04-16
Active to
2011-05-29

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Key facts

Born
( 1946-02-24 ) February 24, 1946 (age 80) , Moscow , Soviet Union
Education
Moscow State University ( BS , MS , PhD )
Known for
Diophantine approximation , Lie groups , Superrigidity theorem , Arithmeticity theorem, Expander graphs , Oppenheim conjecture
Awards
Fields Medal (1978) , Lobachevsky Prize (1996) , Wolf Prize (2005) , Abel Prize (2020)
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Yale University
Thesis
On some aspects of the theory of Anosov flows (1970)
Doctoral advisor
Yakov Sinai
Doctoral students
Emmanuel Breuillard , Hee Oh

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Encyclopedic overview

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020 (with Hillel Furstenberg), becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics.

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