Alexander Givental
| Alexander Givental | |
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| Nationality | Russian American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas |
| Thesis | Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vladimir Arnold |
| Known for | Arnold–Givental conjecture |
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 earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold, in 1987. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for toric Calabi–Yau manifolds, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P4. He is now Professor of Mathematics in University of California, Berkeley.
References
- ↑ "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
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