Vladimir Gershonovich DrinfeldBorn 14 Feb 1954.Soviet mathematician whose work on quantum groups and in number theorywas recognized with the award of a Fields Medal in 1990,when he was 36, and with the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering at Kharkov, Russia. His interests have been broad, moving from algebraic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms to the much newer theory of quantum groups relevant to physics, which he introduced in 1985. This groundbreaking concept was also developed independently by the Japanese mathematician Michio Jimbo.« |
