Sergei Novikov

Premios

1. 1970

   Medalla Fields

   Matemáticas

   Made important advances in topology, the most well-known being his proof of the topological invariance of the Pontryagin classes of the differentiable manifold. His work included a study of the cohomology and homotopy of Thom spaces.

2. 2005

   Premio Wolf — Matemáticas

   Matemáticas

   for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.