Grigory Margulis

Grigory Margulis
Григорий Маргулис
Margulis in 2006
Born (1946-02-24) February 24, 1946 (age 78)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian, American[1]
EducationMoscow State University (BS, MS, PhD)
Known forDiophantine approximation
Lie groups
Superrigidity theorem
Arithmeticity theorem
Expander graphs
Oppenheim conjecture
AwardsFields Medal (1978)
Lobachevsky Prize (1996)
Wolf Prize (2005)
Abel Prize (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
ThesisOn some aspects of the theory of Anosov flows (1970)
Doctoral advisorYakov Sinai
Doctoral studentsEmmanuel Breuillard
Hee Oh

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American[2] mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020 (with Hillel Furstenberg), becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes.[3] In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics.[4]

  1. ^ "Gregory Margulis". Archived from the original on 2016-09-11.
  2. ^ "Gregory Margulis". Archived from the original on 2016-09-11.
  3. ^ Chang, Kenneth (March 18, 2020). "Abel Prize in Mathematics Shared by 2 Trailblazers of Probability and Dynamics".
  4. ^ "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.