Biography:Mariusz Wodzicki

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Mariusz Wodzicki
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Wodzicki, Berkeley, 1993
Born1956
Bytom, Poland
CitizenshipPoland
Alma materMoscow State University
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Institutions

Mariusz Wodzicki (Polish: [ˈmarjuʂ vɔˈd͡ʑit͡skʲi]; born 1956) is a Polish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, whose works primarily focus on analysis, algebraic k-theory, noncommutative geometry, and algebraic geometry.

Life and career

Wodzicki was born in Bytom, Poland in 1956. He received a MSc from Moscow State University in 1980,[1] and he completed his doctoral degree in 1984 at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow under the advisement of Yuri Manin (Spectral Asymmetry and Zeta-Functions).[2]

In 1985–1986 he was a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, after which he became an assistant professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1] He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

In 1992, Wodzicki was an invited speaker of the European Congress of Mathematics in Paris (Algebraic K-theory and functional analysis). In 1994, he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich (The algebra of functional analysis).[4]

Selection of writings

See also

  • List of Polish mathematicians

References

https://math.berkeley.edu/~wodzicki/Lubar.html