Maxim Kontsevich

Maxim Lvovitch Konze Malevich (Russian Максим Львович Концевич, usually quoted in the literature in the English form " Maxim Kontsevich "; born August 25, 1964 in Khimki ) is a Franco- Russian mathematician.

Life

After second in the Soviet Mathematics Olympiad he was a student, he studied mathematics at the Moscow State University in Moscow. From 1985 he was a research mathematician at the " Institute for Problems of Information Transport" in Moscow. In 1992 he earned his doctorate at the University of Bonn in Don Bernard Zagier, where he proved a conjecture of Edward Witten of the equivalence of two models of quantum gravity. He is currently a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHES ) in Bures -sur -Yvette, France, and visiting professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.

Even more important works are situated in the area of mathematical physics, often ideas from the field of string theory follows. He found a design for knot invariants from Feynman integrals topological quantum field theories. All Vassiliev knot invariants, can be constructed in this way. In algebraic geometry, he found methods for the counting of rational algebraic curves on certain varieties. He has worked partly together with Yuri Manin, with which he formulated a conjecture about " mirror symmetry " of three-dimensional Calabi -Yau manifolds (see Floer homology). Another important result is its quantization of general Poisson manifolds and other contributions to non-commutative geometry.

He has the French and Russian citizenship.

Rates and Memberships

In 1998 he received at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, the Fields Medal in addition to Richard Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers and Curtis T. McMullen. In 1997 he received the Henri Poincaré Prize. In 1994 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Zurich ( Homological algebra of mirror symmetry ).

He is a member of the Institut de France and the Academia Europaea. Since 2002 he is a member of the Academie des Sciences.