Peter Ozsváth

American mathematician
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IntroAmerican mathematician
PlacesUnited States of America
isMathematician Educator
Work fieldAcademia Mathematics
Gender
Male
Birth20 October 1967, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, U.S.A.
Age57 years
Star signLibra
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Biography

Peter Steven Ozsváth (born October 20, 1967) is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds.

He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1994 under the supervision of John Morgan; his dissertation was entitled On Blowup Formulas For SU(2) Donaldson Polynomials.

Selected publications

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