1 Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
(b. December 23, 1943 in Boksitogorsk, Russia)
Currently at IHES, Mikhail Gromov is a French-Russian geometer with major contributions to
modern mathematics over the last 25 years. Some of his most important contributions to
modern geometry are in the following areas: Riemannian metrics, solutions of important
problems in global Riemannian geometry, convergence of Riemannian manifolds, Gromov
compactness principle, distance in abstract spaces, foundations of global symplectic geometry,
J-holomorphic curves on symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants (of significant
interest in modern quantum field theory), groups of polynomial growth and immersion
theory.
1.1 Education
Masters degree in Mathematics in 1965, Doctorate in 1969 and a Post-doctoral Thesis in 1973 at
Leningrad University.
1.2 Academic career
- Assistant Professor from 1967 to 1974 at Leningrad University.
- Permanent Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques,
Bures-sur-Yvette, France, since 1982. naturalized French citizen since 1992.
- Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University, (in addition to IHES)
- Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
1.3 Major Awards
- Wolf Prize in 1993
- The Balzan Prize in 1999
- Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1997
- Lobatchewski Medal in 1997
- Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences in 2002
- Abel Prize in 2009.
