Yakov Eliashberg

Yakov Matveyitch Eliaschberg (Russian Яков Матвеевич Элиашберг, English transcription Yakov Eliashberg, born December 11, 1946 in Leningrad ) is a Russian mathematician who deals with symplectic geometry and topology.

Eliaschberg doctorate Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin in 1972 at the University of Saint Petersburg. Then he taught until 1979 at the University of Syktyvkar in the Komi ASSR Soviet. 1980 to 1987, he led a development group for computer software. 1988 emigrated to the USA where he is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 1989. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study ( Marston Morse Lectures 1996), Texas A & M University. His older brother is the solid-state physicist Gerasim Matveevich Eliashberg (* 1930).

Eliaschberg was involved in the development of symplectic topology in the 1980s and developed the 3-dimensional contact topology. He also deals with the application of methods of symplectic geometry in the theory of functions of several complex variables.

In 1972 he was awarded the prize of the Leningrad Mathematical Society. It was in 1986 in Berkeley ( Combinatorial methods in symplectic topology ) and 1998 ( Invariants in contact topology ) in Berlin Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2006, he held a plenary lecture there ( Symplectic field theory and its applications ). In 1995 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 2001 he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize -. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 2013 he was awarded the Heinz Hopf Prize.