Yakov Eliashberg

Yakov Eliashberg
Eliashberg in 1988.
Born (1946-12-11) 11 December 1946 (age 77)
Leningrad, USSR
Alma materSt. Petersburg State University
Known forHomotopy principle
AwardsOswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2001)
Heinz Hopf Prize (2013)
Crafoord Prize (2016)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsStanford University
Thesis Surgery of Singularities of Smooth Mappings  (1972)
Doctoral advisorVladimir Rokhlin[1]
Doctoral students
Websitemathematics.stanford.edu/people/yakov-eliashberg

Yakov Matveevich Eliashberg (also Yasha Eliashberg; Russian: Яков Матвеевич Элиашберг; born 11 December 1946) is an American mathematician who was born in Leningrad, USSR.

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