Maxim Kontsevich

Maxim Kontsevich (Russian:

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August 25 - 1964 - Russian - Mathematician

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He graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1992 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn, Germany with Don Bernard Zagier as his advisor. Currently he is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France and visiting professor at the Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He has worked on geometrical aspects of knot theory and string theory. His most famous result is a formal deformation quantization that holds for any Poisson manifold. He also introduced knot invariants defined by complicated integrals analogous to Feynman integrals.

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Moscow State University - 1992 - Ph.D. - University of Bonn - Germany - Don Bernard Zagier - IHÉS - Bures-sur-Yvette - Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey - USA - Knot theory - String theory - Deformation quantization - Poisson manifold - Feynman integrals

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In 1998 at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany he received the Fields Medal together with Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers and Curtis T. McMullen.

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1998 - International Congress of Mathematicians - Berlin - Fields Medal - Richard Ewen Borcherds - William Timothy Gowers - Curtis T. McMullen

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See also: Kontsevich integral, motivic integration.

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Kontsevich integral - Motivic integration

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