Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Максим Львович Концевич) (born 25 August 1964) is a Russian mathematician. He received a Fields Medal in 1998, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He also received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997 and a Crafoord Prize in 2008.
Born into the family of Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich – Soviet orientalist and author of the Kontsevich system. After ranking second in the All-Union Mathematics O...
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Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Максим Львович Концевич) (born 25 August 1964) is a Russian mathematician. He received a Fields Medal in 1998, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He also received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997 and a Crafoord Prize in 2008.
Born into the family of Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich – Soviet orientalist and author of the Kontsevich system. After ranking second in the All-Union Mathematics Olympiads, he attended Moscow State University but left without a degree in 1985 to become a researcher at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission in Moscow . In 1992 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn under Don Bernard Zagier. His thesis claims to prove a conjecture by Edward Witten that two quantum gravitational models are equivalent. Currently he is a Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France and Distinguished Professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables,...
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