Vladimir Drinfeld
| Vladimir Drinfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 14, 1954 Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuri Manin |
| Doctoral students |
Dmytro Arinkin Dmitriy Boyarchenko Masoud Kamgarpour Joaquin Teruji Thomas |
| Known for |
Quantum groups Geometric Langlands correspondence Drinfeld–Sokolov–Wilson equation Manin–Drinfeld theorem |
| Notable awards | Fields Medal (1990) |
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Russian: Влади́мир Гершо́нович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a Soviet-born mathematician currently working at the University of Chicago.
Drinfeld's work connected algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the geometric Langlands correspondence. Drinfeld introduced the notion of a quantum group (independently discovered by Michio Jimbo at the same time) and made important contributions to mathematical physics, including the ADHM construction of instantons, algebraic formalism of the Quantum inverse scattering method, and the Drinfeld–Sokolov reduction in the theory of solitons.
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Drinfeld was born in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1954. In 1969, at the age of 15, Drinfeld represented the Soviet Union at the International Mathematics Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania, and won a gold medal with the full score of 40 points. He was, at the time, the youngest participant to achieve a perfect score, and his since only been surpassed by Sergei Konyagin (1972) and Noam Elkies (1981). Drinfeld entered Moscow State University in the same year and graduated from it in 1974. Drinfeld was awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1978 and the Doctor of Sciences degree from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 1988. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. Drinfeld moved to the United States in 1999 and has been working at the University of Chicago since January 1999.
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