Grigory Margulis
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020, becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics.
Grigory Margulis | |
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Margulis on his 60th birthday, 2006 | |
| Born | February 24, 1946 |
| Nationality | Russian, American |
| Education | Moscow State University (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Diophantine approximation Lie groups Superrigidity theorem Arithmeticity theorem Expander graphs Oppenheim conjecture |
| Awards | Fields Medal (1978) Lobachevsky Prize (1996) Wolf Prize (2005) Abel Prize (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | On some aspects of the theory of Anosov flows (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Sinai |
| Doctoral students | Emmanuel Breuillard Hee Oh |
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