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Born July 26, 1969 (age 55) • Moscow • Russia
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2006)
Subjects Of Study algebraic geometry • probability
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician and mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Hironaka Heisuke
Japanese mathematician
Mori Shigefumi
Japanese mathematician
Richard Ewen Borcherds
British mathematician
Pontryagin, Lev Semyonovich
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin
Russian mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Gregory Margulis
Russian mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist

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