Vladimir Voevodsky

Vladimir Voevodsky
Voevodsky in 2011
Born
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky

(1966-06-04)4 June 1966
Died30 September 2017(2017-09-30) (aged 51)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
NationalityRussian, American
Alma materMoscow State University
Harvard University
AwardsFields Medal (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisorDavid 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.