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Jun 03, 1947 Moscow, Russia 76 years old
Russian mathematician
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About Askold Khovanskii
- Askold Georgievich Khovanskii (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????????; born 3 June 1947, Moscow) is a Russian and Canadian mathematician currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
- His areas of research are algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, singularity theory, differential geometry and differential equations.
- His research is in the development of the theory of toric varieties and Newton polyhedra in algebraic geometry.
- He is also the inventor of the theory of fewnomials. He obtained his Ph.D.
- from Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow under the supervision of Vladimir Arnold.
- In his Ph.D.
- thesis, he developed a topological version of Galois theory.
- He studies the theory of Newton–Okounkov bodies (or Okounkov bodies for short). Among his graduate students are Olga Gel'fond, Feodor Borodich, H.
- Petrov-Tan'kin, Kiumars Kaveh, Farzali Izadi, Ivan Soprunov, Jenya Soprunova, Vladlen Timorin, Valentina Kirichenko, Sergey Chulkov, V.
- Kisunko, Mikhail Mazin, O.
- Ivrii, K.
- Matveev, Yuri Burda, and J.
- Yang. In 2014, he received the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for outstanding contributions to mathematical research in Canada.
