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Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; Russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a mathematician from the former USSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago.
Biography. Vladimir Drinfeld was born into a Jewish mathematical family. He was the son of the mathematics professor Gershon Ikhelevich Drinfeld (29 February 1908-18 August 2000) and his wife, the classical philologist Frida Iosifovna Lutskaya-Litvak (1921-2011). Since Vladimir's father was a professor of mathematics at Kharkov University, we ...
Vladimir Drinfeld (born February 14, 1954, Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]) is a Ukrainian-born mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990 for his work in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. Drinfeld attended Moscow State University and the V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow (Ph.D., 1988).
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The Mathematical Work of Vladimir Drinfeld which led to the award of the Field's Medal in 1990 was described by Yuri Ivanovich Manin in a lecture delivered to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan, by Michio Jimbo (since Manin was unable to obtain permission to attend). We give some extracts below to which we have made minor changes.
Vladimir Drinfeld is a Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He works in the general areas of algebraic geometry, group representations and automorphic forms. He is known for his works on the Langlands program and quantum groups. Drinfeld grew up in Kharkov, Ukraine (then USSR).….
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