Biography:Mikhail Khovanov
Mikhail Khovanov | |
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Михаил Гелиевич Хованов | |
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Professor of Mathematics |
| Employer | Columbia University |
| Known for | Khovanov homology, categorification |
Notable work | A categorification of the Jones polynomial |
| Relatives | Tanya Khovanova (half-sister) |
Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 1972) is a Russia n-United States professor of mathematics at Columbia University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology. He is known for introducing Khovanov homology for links,[1][2] which was one of the first examples of categorification.
Education and career
Khovanov graduated from Moscow State School 57 mathematical class in 1988.[3] He earned a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1997,[4] where he studied under Igor Frenkel.[5]
Khovanov was a faculty member at UC Davis before moving to Columbia University.[6]
He is a half-brother of Tanya Khovanova.
References
- ↑ Bar-Natan, Dror (2002), "On Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial", Algebraic & Geometric Topology 2: 337–370, doi:10.2140/agt.2002.2.337, ISSN 1472-2747
"Our hope for the week was to understand and improve Khovanov's seminal work on the categorification of the Jones polynomial" (Page 337).
- ↑ Khovanov, Mikhail (2000), "A categorification of the Jones polynomial", Duke Mathematical Journal 101 (3): 359–426, doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-00-10131-7, ISSN 0012-7094
- ↑ "Alumni list". Moscow School 57. http://sch57.ru/people/alumni/#y1988.
- ↑ Khovanov's PhD dissertation, "Graphical calculus, canonical bases and Kazhdan-Lusztig theory" (1997).
- ↑ Mikhail Khovanov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Mathematics", UC Davis Wiki, 4 April 2007.
"Mikhail Khovanov was in the department when he developed the famous homology theory that bears his name."
External links
- Khovanov's faculty page at Columbia.
- List of Khovanov's publications.
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