Igor Frenkel
Mathematician, Academic
1952 –
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Who is Igor Frenkel?
Igor Borisovich Frenkel is a Russian mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics.
Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1980 with a dissertation on the "Orbital Theory for Affine Lie Algebras". He held positions at the IAS and MSRI, and a tenured professorship at Rutgers University, before taking his current job of tenured professor at Yale University.
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- Born
- Apr 22, 1952
Saint Petersburg - Nationality
- United States of America
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Yale University
- Employment
- Rutgers University
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- New Haven
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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