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Alexander Givental
BornApril 27, 1958
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian American
Alma materGubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Known forArnold–Givental conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints  (1987)
Doctoral advisorVladimir Arnold

Alexander Givental (Russian: Александр Борисович Гивенталь[1]) is a Russian-American mathematician working in symplectic topology and singularity theory, as well as their relation to topological string theories. He graduated from Moscow Phys-Math school number 2 (later renamed into Lyceum Лицей «Вторая школа» [ru]) and then the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and he finally his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold in 1987. He emigrated to the USA in 1990. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for Calabi–Yau manifolds that are complete intersections in toric ambient spaces, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P4.[2] He is now Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. As an extracurricular activity, he translates Russian poetry into English[3] and publishes books, including his own translation of a textbook (Элементарная геометрия (Киселёв) [ru]) in geometry by Andrey Kiselyov and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.[4][5] Givental is a father of two.

References

  1. ^ "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  2. ^ Givental, Alexander (1996). "Equivariant Gromov - Witten Invariants". Int. Math. Res. Not. 1996 (13): 613–663. arXiv:alg-geom/9603021. doi:10.1155/S1073792896000414. S2CID 554844.
  3. ^ Alexander Givental, Elysee Wilson-Egolf. "Verse Translations from Russian". Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  4. ^ Andrey Kiselyov. "Elementary Geometry". Sumizdat. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. ^ Tsvetaeva, Marina (2013). Givental, Alexander; Wilson-Egolf, Elysee (eds.). To You - in 10 Decades. Sumizdat. p. 88. ISBN 978-0977985272.
  • Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
  • Sumizdat, publisher of English translation of Geometry
  • MAA review of Geometry


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