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Vladimir Voevodsky

1966 - 2017

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Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (, Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Воево́дский; 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Voevodsky is the 789th most popular mathematician (up from 812th in 2019), the 1,894th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,049th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Voevodsky ranks 789 out of 1,004. Before him are Frank Morley, Giuseppe Vitali, Daniel Lewin, Wendelin Werner, George Salmon, and Dmitry Grave. After him are Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Rudy Rucker, Maryna Viazovska, Alicia Boole Stott, Oswald Teichmüller, and Jørgen Pedersen Gram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Vladimir Voevodsky ranks 235. Before him are Baja Mali Knindža, Ramón Medina Bello, Tigran Keosayan, Emiko Kubo, Ana Torrent, and Alberto Acosta. After him are Yokozuna, Henrik Larsen, Shirley Manson, Lisa Stansfield, Chiaki Yamada, and Karin Viard. Among people deceased in 2017, Vladimir Voevodsky ranks 394. Before him are Paul G. Comba, Viktor Tsaryov, Danuta Szaflarska, Atanase Sciotnic, Yuriy Poyarkov, and Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov. After him are Károly Makk, William Lombardy, Heather Menzies, Manfred Kaiser, Carlos Humberto Romero, and Roberto Anzolin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Voevodsky ranks 1,894 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Lavrinenko (1914), Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Natalia Bekhtereva (1924), Yekaterina Gradova (1946), Lyubov Polishchuk (1949), and Nikolay Latyshev (1913). After him are Irina Privalova (1968), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Yelena Shushunova (1969), Zhanna Bichevskaya (1944), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), and Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Vladimir Voevodsky ranks 51. Before him are Carl Neumann (1832), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), and Dmitry Grave (1863). After him are Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Mikhail Suslin (1894), and Anatoly Karatsuba (1937).

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