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Grigory Margulis

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Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020 (with Hillel Furstenberg), becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Margulis is the 315th most popular mathematician (up from 386th in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from Russia (up from 887th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Grigory Margulis ranks 315 out of 1,004. Before him are John Wilkins, Enrico Bombieri, Isaac Beeckman, Sergei Novikov, Farkas Bolyai, and Abraham Wald. After him are Guo Shoujing, Alain Connes, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Pietro Cataldi, Willem de Sitter, and Edward Kasner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Grigory Margulis ranks 187. Before him are Ichiro Hosotani, Alun Armstrong, Malcolm McLaren, Tina Aumont, Bernd Hölzenbein, and Rebiya Kadeer. After him are Ralf Hütter, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Héctor Babenco, Mario Zenari, Ahmed Faras, and Mel Martínez.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Margulis ranks 617 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Alexander Schmorell (1917), and Valerian Kuybyshev (1888). After him are Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Sergei Ivanov (1953), Vladislav Tretiak (1952), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Andrey Korotayev (1961), and Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Grigory Margulis ranks 17. Before him are Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Yakov Sinai (1935), and Sergei Novikov (1938). After him are Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), and Rudolf Lipschitz (1832).

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