Biography:Askold Khovanskii

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Short description: Russian and Canadian mathematician (born 1947)
Askold Khovanskii
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Born (1947-06-03) 3 June 1947 (age 77)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussia n, Canadian
Alma materMoscow State University
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Known forFewnomial theory, Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko theorem, Newton polyhedra theory, toric varieties, Lawrence–Khovanskii–Pukhlikov theorem, topological Galois theory
AwardsJeffery–Williams Prize (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Independent University of Moscow
ThesisRepresentability of Function in Quadratures (1973)
Doctoral advisorVladimir Arnold

Askold Georgievich Khovanskii (Russian: Аскольд Георгиевич Хованский; born 3 June 1947, Moscow) is a Russian and Canadian mathematician currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, Canada.[1] His areas of research are algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, singularity theory, differential geometry and differential equations. His research is in the development of the theory of toric varieties and Newton polyhedra in algebraic geometry. He is also the inventor of the theory of fewnomials, and the Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko theorem is named after him.

He obtained his Ph.D. from Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow under the supervision of Vladimir Arnold. In his Ph.D. thesis, he developed a topological version of Galois theory. He studies the theory of Newton–Okounkov bodies, or Okounkov bodies for short.

Among his graduate students are Olga Gel'fond, Feodor Borodich, H. Petrov-Tan'kin, Kiumars Kaveh,[2] Farzali Izadi, Ivan Soprunov,[3] Jenya Soprunova,[4] Vladlen Timorin,[5] Valentina Kirichenko,[6] Sergey Chulkov, V. Kisunko, Mikhail Mazin,[7] O. Ivrii, K. Matveev, Yuri Burda, and J. Yang.

In 2014, he received the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for outstanding contributions to mathematical research in Canada.[8]

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