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Mikhail Gromov
- See Mikhail Gromov (disambiguation) for other people with this name.
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (born December 23, 1943, also known as Mikhael Gromov, Michael Gromov, or Misha Gromov) is a mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of geometry, especially metric geometry, symplectic geometry, and geometric group theory.
Mikhail Gromov studied for a doctorate (1973) in Leningrad, where he was a student of V. A. Rokhlin. He is now a permanent member of IHÉS, and Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics at New York University.
He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1993 and the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics in 2004. He is known, amongst other things, for his h-principle on differential relations , for his work on hyperbolic groups, and for connecting symplectic topology with the almost complex manifold theory.
See also: Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth, Gromov's theorem on almost flat manifolds, Gromov's compactness theorem, Gromov-Hausdorff convergence, Bishop-Gromov inequality, Gromov norm .
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