Grigory Margulis
Mathematician, Academic
1946 –
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Who is Grigory Margulis?
Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian 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 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the seventh mathematician to receive both prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics.
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- Born
- Feb 24, 1946
Moscow - Also known as
- Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Employment
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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