Alexander Givental
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| Born | April 27, 1958 Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian American |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas |
| Known for | Arnold–Givental conjecture |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vladimir Arnold |
Alexander Givental (Александр Борисович Гивенталь[1]) is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories. He graduated Moscow Lyceum number 2 (), then Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, learned his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold, in 1987, emigrated to the USA in 1990. 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.[2] He is now Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. As an extracurricular activity translates Russian poetry into English[3] and publishes books including his own translation of a textbook in geometry by Andrey Kiselyov ()[4] and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.[5] Givental is a father of two.
References[]
- ^ "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ Givental, Alexander (1996). "Equivariant Gromov - Witten Invariants". Intern.Math.Research Notes. 1996 (13): 613–663. arXiv:alg-geom/9603021. doi:10.1155/S1073792896000414. S2CID 554844.
- ^ Alexander Givental, Elysee Wilson-Egolf. "Verse Translations from Russian". Retrieved 2020-09-09.
- ^ Andrey Kiselyov. "Elementary Geometry". Sumizdat. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
- ^ Tsvetaeva, Marina (2013). Givental, Alexander; Wilson-Egolf, Elysee (eds.). To You - in 10 Decades. Sumizdat. p. 88. ISBN 978-0977985272.
- 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
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