About Mikhail Goussarov
Lived 1958 – 1999 (aged 41). Mikhail Goussarov was a Russian mathematician.
Mikhail Goussarov (March 8, 1958, Leningrad – June 25, 1999, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet mathematician who worked in low-dimensional topology. He and Victor Vassiliev independently discovered finite type invariants of knots and links. He drowned at the age of 41 in an accident in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Who was Mikhail Goussarov?
Russian mathematician (*1958 – †1999)
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Mikhail Goussarov was born on 8 March 1958 in Saint Petersburg.
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Mikhail Goussarov died on 25 June 1999 in Tel Aviv.
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Mikhail Goussarov was a mathematician.
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Mikhail Goussarov was Russian.
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