Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.
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- Born in
- Moscow
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityHarvard UniversityMSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
- Awards
- 🏆 Fields medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 David Kazhdan
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Simone Borghesi📖 Alexander Vishik
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1966
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