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Also Known As Gromov, Mikhail Leonidovich
Born December 23, 1943 (age 81) • Russia
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study Riemannian geometry • geometry

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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
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Paul Erdős
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