Alexander Givental
Alexander Givental | |
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| Born | April 27, 1958 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas |
| Known for | Arnold–Givental conjecture |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints (1987) |
| Vladimir Arnold | |
Alexander Givental (Russian: Александр Борисович Гивенталь[1]) is a Russian-American mathematician who is currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His main contributions have been in symplectic topology and singularity theory, as well as their relation to topological string theories.
Education
Givental graduated from the famed Moscow high school No. 2 (Лицей «Вторая школа»), one of the math teachers was Valery Senderov, but was not able to enter a program at a top university due to antisemitism in Soviet mathematics. He completed his undergraduate and master studies at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and defended his PhD under the supervision of V. I. Arnold in 1987.[2] He emigrated to the United States in 1990.
Mathematical work
He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for Calabi–Yau manifolds that are complete intersections in toric ambient spaces, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P4.[3] As an extracurricular activity, he translates Russian poetry into English[4] and publishes books, including his own translation of a textbook (Элементарная геометрия (Киселёв)) in geometry by Andrey Kiselyov and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.[5][6]
Honours
Givental was a speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[7]
Personal life
Givental is a father of two.
References
- ↑ "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ↑ "Alexander Givental - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- ↑ Givental, Alexander (1996). "Equivariant Gromov – Witten Invariants". Int. Math. Res. Not. 1996 (13): 613–663. arXiv:alg-geom/9603021. doi:10.1155/S1073792896000414. S2CID 554844.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ↑ Alexander Givental, Elysee Wilson-Egolf. "Verse Translations from Russian". Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Andrey Kiselyov. "Elementary Geometry". Sumizdat. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Tsvetaeva, Marina (2013). Givental, Alexander; Wilson-Egolf, Elysee (eds.). To You – in 10 Decades. Sumizdat. p. 88. ISBN 978-0977985272.
- ↑ "ICM Plenary & Invited Speakers | International Congress of Mathematicians".
- Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
- Sumizdat, publisher of English translation of Geometry
- MAA review of Geometry