Pierre Milman

Pierre D. Milman (Russian Пьер Д. Мильман ) is a Russian -born Canadian mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and differential geometry.

Milman is the son of Ukrainian- Israeli mathematician David Milman. He made 1967 his mathematics degree from Moscow State University and was then several years of physical institutes in Moscow. In 1975 he received his doctorate from the University of Tel Aviv and went in the same year at the University of Toronto, where he was in the 1980 research mathematician ( supported by NSERC ) and from 1986 professor. He was a visiting professor and visiting scientists including Japan, Australia, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, the Weizmann Institute and IHES.

Milman succeeded with Edward Stone beer a substantial simplification of the proof of resolution of singularities over fields of characteristic 0 by Heisuke Hironaka, the proof of which was from 1964 to be very complicated and opaque. In addition, their evidence was effective ( algorithmically ). On the Simplification and analysis of this evidence and worldwide other mathematicians were involved from the 1990s, also in view of the fact that the corresponding problem is still largely open in any characteristic.

With Beer Stone and Wieslaw Pawłucki he wore in 2003 also to solve a problem of Hassler Whitney on the extension of differentiable functions, which was then dissolved by Charles Fefferman.

Since 1997 he is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2005 he was awarded with the beer Stone Jeffery -Williams Prize.

His brother Vitali Milman is a mathematics professor at the University of Tel Aviv.