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Also known as Misha Gromov, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Mikhael Gromov

Russian and French mathematician and academic

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Origin
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Born
( 1943-12-23 ) 23 December 1943 (age 82) , Boksitogorsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Citizenship
Russian and French
Education
Leningrad State University ( PhD )
Awards
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1981), Wolf Prize (1993), Balzan Prize (1999), Kyoto Prize (2002), Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2004), Bolyai Prize (2005), Abel Prize (2009)
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques , New York University
Doctoral advisor
Vladimir Rokhlin
Doctoral students
Denis Auroux , François Labourie , Pierre Pansu , Mikhail Katz

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Described at

C.V. de Mikha�l Gromov - Membre de l'Acad�mie des sciences

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human
Given name
Mikhail
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russia
Place of birth
Boksitogorsk
Languages spoken
English language
Official website
www.ihes.fr/~gromov
Image
Mikhael Gromov.jpg
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Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
date of birth
1943-12-23
Erdős number
3
name in native language
Mikhaïl Gromov
different from
Mikhail Gromov
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WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview

Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a permanent member of Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France and a professor of mathematics at New York University.

Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".

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