Leonid Polterovich
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| Born | 30 August 1963 Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian-Israeli |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1984) Tel Aviv University |
| Awards | 1998 Erdős Prize 1996 EMS Prize |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov G. Sinai Vitali Milman |
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Leonid Polterovich (Hebrew: ליאוניד פולטרוביץ; Russian: Леонид В. Полтерович; born 30 August 1963) is a Russian-Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University. His research field includes symplectic geometry and dynamical systems.
A native of Moscow, Polterovich earned his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University in 1984. He moved to Israel after the collapse of communism, earning his doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1990. In 1996, he was awarded the EMS Prize,[1] and in 1998 the Erdős Prize. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[2] He was a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Polterovich, Leonid (1998). "Geometry on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 401–410.
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