Laureate

Grigory Margulis

Born 1946 · Russia · Male

Awards

  1. 1978

    Fields Medal

    Math

    Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups. His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups.

  2. 2005

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

    Math

    for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics and measure theory.

  3. 2020

    Abel Prize

    Math

    For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.