Mikhail Gromov

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

(b. December 23, 1943 in Boksitogorsk, Russia)

Currently at IHES, Mikhail Gromov is a French-Russian geometer with major contributions to modern mathematics over the last 25 years. Some of his most important contributions to modern geometry are in the following areas: Riemannian metrics, solutions of important problems in global Riemannian geometry, convergence of Riemannian manifolds, Gromov compactness principle, distance in abstract spaces, foundations of global symplectic geometry, J-holomorphic curves on symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants (of significant interest in modern quantum field theory), groups of polynomial growth and immersion theory.

Education

Masters degree in Mathematics in 1965, Doctorate in 1969 and a Post-doctoral Thesis in 1973 at Leningrad University.

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