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Also known as Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov

Russian mathematician

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Andrei Okounkov appears in Vinony's Fields Medal collection — one of 68 entries. It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Vinony's link graph records 108 inbound references to Andrei Okounkov, and connects out to Spain, mathematics and Moscow.

It is catalogued under topics including 1969 births, 21st-century Russian mathematicians and Columbia University faculty.

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Born
Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov , ( 1969-07-26 ) July 26, 1969 (age 56) , Moscow , Soviet Union
Alma mater
Moscow State University ( BS , PhD )
Awards
EMS Prize (2004) , Fields Medal (2006) , Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2026)
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Columbia University , National Research University – Higher School of Economics , Princeton University , University of California, Berkeley , University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor
Alexandre Kirillov

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Instance of
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Given name
Andrej
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Moscow
Languages spoken
Russian
Doctoral advisor
Alexandre Kirillov
Field of work
algebraic geometry
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date of birth
1969-07-26
Erdős number
3
interested in
mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview

Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Окунько́в, Andrej Okun'kov, born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at Columbia University and the academic supervisor of HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics. In 2006, he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."

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