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Grigory Margulis

Date of Birth 24-February-1946
Place of Birth Moscow
(Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Moscow Oblast, Europe)
Nationality Russia
Also know as Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis
Profession Mathematician
Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the seventh mathematician to receive both prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics.

Awards by Grigory Margulis

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2005


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(For his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory.)