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Alexander Goncharov

b. 1960

American mathematician

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Born 1960. Alexander Goncharov is an American mathematician.

Alexander B. Goncharov (born April 7, 1960) is a Soviet American mathematician and the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He won the EMS Prize in 1992.

Goncharov won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1976. He attained his doctorate at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1987, under supervision of Israel Gelfand with thesis Generalized conformal structures on manifolds. Goncharov was an Invited Speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians and gave a talk Polylogarithms in arithmetic and geometry.

In 2019, Goncharov was appointed the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, as well as the Gretchen and Barry Mazur Chair at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques.

Vesselin Dimitrov was a PhD student of his.

Selected publications

(with A. M. Levin)

(with P. Deligne) (with V. V. Fock) (with V. V. Fock) (with H. Gangl, A. Levin) (with V. V. Fock) (with R. Kenyon) (with T. Dimofte, M. Gabella) (with J. Golden, M. Spradlin, C. Vergu, A. Volovich)

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MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Employers
Brown University
Also known as
Aleksandr Goncharov, Aleksandr Borisovich Goncharov

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American mathematician

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Alexander Goncharov was born on 7 April 1960.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alexander Goncharov

· Wikidata: Q2642205

· DBpedia: Alexander Goncharov

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