Vladimir Voevodsky | |
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Born | Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky 4 June 1966 |
Died | 30 September 2017 (aged 51) Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
Nationality | Russian, American |
Alma mater | Moscow State University Harvard University |
Awards | Fields Medal (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
Doctoral advisor | David Kazhdan |
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (/vɔɪɛˈvɒdski/, Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Воево́дский; 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.