Alexander Givental
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Who is Alexander Givental?
Alexander Givental is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories. He earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for toric Calabi–Yau manifolds, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P⁴. He is now Professor of Mathematics in University of California, Berkeley.
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- Also known as
- Гивенталь, Александр Борисович
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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