Citizenship RussiaFrance Role Mathematician Nationality Russian Fields Mathematics | Doctoral students Dmitri Panov Doctoral advisor Don Zagier Name Maxim Kontsevich | |
Institutions Institut des Hautes Etudes ScientifiquesUniversity of Miami Alma mater University of BonnMoscow State University Notable awards EMS Prize(1992)Henri Poincare Prize (1997)Fields Medal (1998)Crafoord Prize (2008)Shaw Prize (2012)Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)[National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate)] (2015) Residence Miami, Florida, United States Education | ||
Maxim kontsevich 2015 breakthrough prize in mathematics symposium
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич; [mɐˈksʲim lʲˈvovʲit͡ɕ konˈt͡sɛvʲit͡ɕ] ; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French mathematician. 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 Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014.
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- Maxim kontsevich 2015 breakthrough prize in mathematics symposium
- The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents the HLF Portraits Maxim Kontsevich
- Biography
- Honors and awards
- References
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents the HLF Portraits: Maxim Kontsevich
Biography
He was born into the family of Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich, Soviet orientalist and author of the Kontsevich system. After ranking second in the All-Union Mathematics Olympiads, he attended Moscow State University but left without a degree in 1985 to become a researcher at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission in Moscow. In 1992 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn under Don Bernard Zagier. His thesis outlines a proof of a conjecture by Edward Witten that two quantum gravitational models are equivalent.
His work concentrates on geometric aspects of mathematical physics, most notably on knot theory, quantization, and mirror symmetry. One of his results is a formal deformation quantization that holds for any Poisson manifold. He also introduced knot invariants defined by complicated integrals analogous to Feynman integrals. In topological field theory, he introduced the moduli space of stable maps, which may be considered a mathematically rigorous formulation of the Feynman integral for topological string theory.
Honors and awards
In 1998, he won the Fields Medal for his "contributions to four problems of Geometry". In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.. In 2014, He was awarded Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
