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Maxim Kontsevich
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Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-08-25 ) 25 August 1964 (age 61) , Khimki , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Russia , France
- Alma mater
- Moscow State University , University of Bonn
- Awards
- EMS Prize (1992), Otto Hahn Medal (1992), Henri Poincaré Prize (1997), Fields Medal (1998), Crafoord Prize (2008) , Shaw Prize (2012) , Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012), Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2015) , National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate) (2015)
- Fields
- Mathematics , Mathematical physics
- Institutions
- Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques , University of Miami , University of California, Berkeley
- Doctoral advisor
- Don Bernard Zagier
- Notable students
- Serguei Barannikov
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Described at
C.V. de Maxime Kontsevich - Membre de l�Acad�mie des sciences
academie-sciences.fr →Maxim Kontsevich travaille principalement sur les structures mathématiques liées à la physique théorique moderne. Publications les plus représentatives M. KONTSEVICH Intersection theory on the moduli spaces of curves and the matrix Airy function Comm.Math.Phys. (1992) 147, 1-23 M. KONTSEVICH Vassiliev& 39;s knot invariants Adv.Soviet Math. (1993) 16, Part 2,137-150 M. KONTSEVICH Formal (non)-commutative symplectic geometry The Gelfand Mathematical Seminars 1990-1992 Ed. L.CORWIN, I.GELFAND, J.LEPOWSKY, Birkhauser (1993) 173-187 M. KONTSEVICH Feynman diagrams and low-dimensional topology First European Congress of Mathematics (1992) Paris Progress in Mathematics 120 Vol. II, Birkhauser (1994) 97-121 M. KONTSEVICH, YU.MANIN Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry Comm.Math.Phys.,164:3 (1994), 525-562 and Mirror Symmetry II, B.GREENE AND S.-T.YAU (Eds) (1997) AMS and International Press, 607-654 Notice biographique de Maxime Kontsevich, Membre de l’Académie des sciences M. KONTSEVICH Homological algebra of mirror symmetry Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich (1994) vol. I, Birkhauser (1995) 120-139 M. KONTSEVICH Lyapunov exponents and Hodge structures in "The mathematical beauty of physics: in memory of Claude Itzykson" (5-7 juin 1996, Saclay) J.M.Drouffe and J.B.Zuber (Eds.) Advanced series in mathematical physics (1997) 24, 318-332 M. KONTSEVICH Deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds preprint IHES/M/97/72 (1997) M. KONTSEVICH Operads and Motives in Deformation Quantization Lett. Math. Phys. (1999) 48, 35-72 M. KONTSEVICH, Y.SOIBELMAN Homological mirror symmetry and torus fibrations in "Symplectic geometry and mirror symmetry", K.FUKAYA, Y.-G.OH, K.ONO, G.TIAN (Eds.) World Scientific (2001) 203-263
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maxim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Khimki
- Father
- Lev Kontsevich
- Occupation
- topologist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Don Zagier
- Student of
- Don Zagier
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- MaximKontsevich.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1964-08-25
- Commons category
- Maxim Kontsevich
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Максим Львович Концевич
- described at URL
- www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/membre/KontsevichM_bio0503.pdf
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич, IPA: [mɐkˈsʲim ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐnˈtsɛvʲɪtɕ] ; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French 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.
Academic career and research
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