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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