PlanetPhysics/Mikhail Gromov

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
(b. December 23, 1943 in Boksitogorsk, Russia)

Currently at IHES, Mikhail Gromov is a French-Russian geometer with major contributions to modern mathematics over the last 25 years. Some of his most important contributions to modern geometry are in the following areas: Riemannian metrics, solutions of important problems in global Riemannian geometry, convergence of Riemannian manifolds, Gromov compactness principle, distance in abstract spaces, foundations of global symplectic geometry, J-holomorphic curves on symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants (of significant interest in modern quantum field theory), groups of polynomial growth and immersion theory.

Education
Masters degree in Mathematics in 1965, Doctorate in 1969 and a Post-doctoral Thesis in 1973 at Leningrad University.

Academic career

 * Assistant Professor from 1967 to 1974 at Leningrad University.
 * Permanent Professor at the Institut des Hautes \'Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, since 1982. naturalized French citizen since 1992.
 * Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, (in addition to IHES)
 * Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Major Awards

 * Wolf Prize in 1993
 * The Balzan Prize in 1999
 * Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1997
 * Lobatchewski Medal in 1997
 * Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences in 2002
 * Abel Prize in 2009.