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Also Known As Gregory Aleksandrovich Margulis
Born February 24, 1946 (age 78) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1978)
Subjects Of Study Lie group
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov
Soviet mathematician
Pontryagin, Lev Semyonovich
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin
Russian mathematician
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Élie-Joseph Cartan
French mathematician
Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
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Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
John Tate
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
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Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
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