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Born August 25, 1964 (age 60) • Khimki • Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1998)
Subjects Of Study algebraic geometry • algebraic topology
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Hironaka Heisuke
Japanese mathematician
Mori Shigefumi
Japanese mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Gregory Margulis
Russian mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
André Weil
French mathematician
John Tate
American mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician

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