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Born 1966 (age 59) • Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2006)
Subjects Of Study Poincaré conjecture • geometrization conjecture • manifold
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Gregory Margulis
Russian mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Kodaira Kunihiko
Kodaira Kunihiko
Japanese mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician

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