Alexander Givental
Alexander Givental (Александр Борисович Гивенталь[1]) 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, in 1987. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for Calabi–Yau manifolds that are complete intersections in toric ambient spaces, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P4. He is now Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexander Givental | |
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Nationality | Russian American |
Alma mater | Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas |
Known for | Arnold–Givental conjecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Vladimir Arnold |
References
- "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
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