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Encyclopedia > Vladimir Drinfeld

Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd (Владимир Гершонович Дринфельд) is a mathematician born February 14, 1954 in Ukraine.


He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990, and is currently the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.


He is known for work in number theory and other fields; in particular for his proof of the substantive part of the Langlands program for GL2 of a function field of an algebraic curve over a finite field, this being the first major non-abelian case over a global field that was known.


See also: Drinfel'd module, Drinfel'd moduli problem, Grothendieck-Teichmüller group


External links

  • MacTutor biography (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Drinfeld.html)
  • Report by Manin (http://www.icm2002.org.cn/general/prize/medal/1990/Drinfeld/)

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Drinfeld biography (418 words)
Drinfeld completed his postgraduate studies in 1977 and he defended his "candidate" thesis in 1978 at Moscow University.
Drinfeld's main achievements are his proof of the Langlands conjecture for GL(2) over a functional field; and his work in quantum group theory.
In 1992 Drinfeld was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine.
Vladimir Drinfel'd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (248 words)
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd (Владимир Гершонович Дринфельд) is a mathematician born February 4, 1954 in Ukraine.
He also generalized Hopf algebras to quasi-Hopf algebras, and introduced the study of Drinfeld twists, which can be used to factorize the R-matrix corresponding to the solution of the Yang-Baxter equation associated with a quasitriangular Hopf algebra.
1990: Drinfeld • Jones • Mori • Witten
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