Mikhail Gromov
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Russian and French mathematician and academic
Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mikhail
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Boksitogorsk
- Educated at
- Saint Peter's School
- Employer
- Stony Brook University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- Official website
- www.ihes.fr/~gromov
- Image
- Mikhael Gromov.jpg
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- member of
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
- date of birth
- 1943-12-23
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Mikhaïl Gromov
- different from
- Mikhail Gromov
- described at URL
- www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/membre/GromovM_bio0709.pdf
- maintained by WikiProject
- 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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