Mikhail Khovanov | |
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Михаил Гелиевич Хованов | |
Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Nationality | Russian-American |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Occupation | Professor of Mathematics |
Employer | Columbia University |
Known for | Khovanov homology, categorification |
Notable work | A categorification of the Jones polynomial |
Relatives | Tanya Khovanova (half-sister) |
Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 1972) is a Russian-American professor of mathematics at Columbia University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology. He is known for introducing Khovanov homology for links,[1][2] which was one of the first examples of categorification.
"Our hope for the week was to understand and improve Khovanov's seminal work on the categorification of the Jones polynomial" (Page 337).