About Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich is a Russian and French mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Shaw Prize and Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Also in 2012, he was awarded the Shaw Prize. Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич, IPA:; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French mathematician and mathematical physicist. Taubes, Clifford Henry (1998) "The work of Maxim Kontsevich". He was born into the family of Lev Kontsevich, Soviet orientalist and author of the Kontsevich system.
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