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American mathematician
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Male
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53 years
Education
Yale University
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Khovanov homology
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Biography
Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 1972) is a Russian-American professor of mathematics at Columbia University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology. He is known for introducing Khovanov homology for links, which was one of the first examples of categorification.
Education and career
Khovanov graduated from Moscow State School 57 mathematical class in 1988. He earned a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1997, where he studied under Igor Frenkel.
Khovanov was a faculty member at UC Davis before moving to Columbia University.
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Notable Russian Mathematicians
Gender:Male, Born in:Years 1970 to 1999
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Notable Russian Topologists
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Notable American Topologists
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Notable Russian Professors
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Notable American Professors
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Notable Russian Educators
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Notable American Educators
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