Leon Takhtajan

Leon Takhtajan
Born (1950-10-01) 1 October 1950 (age 74)
NationalityRussia, United States
Alma materSteklov Institute
Known foralgebraic Bethe ansatz
FRT construction
RelativesArmen Takhtajan (father)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical physics
InstitutionsSteklov Institute
Stony Brook University
Doctoral advisorLudvig Faddeev

Leon Armenovich Takhtajan (Armenian: Լևոն Թախտաջյան; Russian: Леон Арменович Тахтаджян, born 1 October 1950, Yerevan) is a Russian (and formerly Soviet) mathematical physicist of Armenian descent, currently a professor of mathematics at the Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and a leading researcher at the Euler International Mathematical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia.[1]