Maxim kontsevich biography

Maxim Kontsevich has established a reputation in pure mathematics andtheoretical physics, with influential ideas and deep insights. He hasbeen influenced by the work of Richard Feynmann and Edward Witten. Kontsevichis an expert in the so-called "string theory" and in quantum field theory. Hemade his name with contributions to four problems of geometry. He was able toprove a conjecture of Witten and demonstrate the mathematical equivalenceof two models of so-called quantum gravitation. The quantum theory ofgravity is an intermediate step towards a complete unified theory. Itharmonizes physical theories of the macrocosm (mass attraction) and themicrocosm (forces between elementary particles). Another result of Kontsevichrelates to knot theory. Knots mean exactly the same thing for mathematiciansas for everyone else, except that the two ends of the rope are alwaysjointed together. A key question in knot theory is, which of the vari

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Biography

Maxim Kontsevich was born into a talented family in Khimki (sometimes written Chimki or Himki), about 17 km northwest of the centre of Moscow. His father, Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich, is an expert on the Korean language and Korean history, and he worked as Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He devised the Kontsevich system for the Cyrillization of the Korean language, the main system in use today for producing Russian versions of Korean texts. Maxim's mother trained as an engineer, and his elder brother Leonid (Lenny) went on to undertake research into computer imaging and works in San Francisco.

Kontsevich attended secondary school in Moscow and became fascinated by mathematics and physics at an early age. This was, he wrote:-

thanks to my brother and some very good books.

He took special advanced courses in these two subjects during his final three years at secondary school, having won the right t

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Mathematical Sciences

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Maxim Kontsevich

for his pioneering works in algebra, geometry and mathematical physics and in particular deformation quantization, motivic integration and mirror symmetry.

Contribution

Recently, some of the most profound advances in algebra and geometry have been inspired by ideas from physics. grundregel Kontsevich has led the way in a number of these developments.

Beginning with Heisenberg’s introduction of quantum mechanics, the mathematical process of quantization – that fryst vatten, of passing from classical to quantum mechanics – has been a central theme. One utgåva, known as deformation quantization, has for its natural setting classical spaces known as Poisson manifolds. Their exact quantization had been carried out in special cases, but in general this proved to be a formidable bekymmer. It was resolved brilliantly bygd Kontsevich, who used ideas from quantum field theory.

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