Alexander Givental

Alexander Givental (Александр Борисович Гивенталь[1]) is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories. He graduated Moscow Lyceum number 2 (Лицей «Вторая школа»), then Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, learned his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold, in 1987, emigrated to the USA in 1990. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for Calabi–Yau manifolds that are complete intersections in toric ambient spaces, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P4.[2] He is now Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. As an extracurricular activity translates Russian poetry into English[3] and publishes books including his own translation of a textbook in geometry by Andrey Kiselyov (Элементарная геометрия (Киселёв))[4] and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.[5] Givental is a father of two.

Alexander Givental
BornApril 27, 1958
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian American
Alma materGubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Known forArnold–Givental conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisSingularities of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints (1987)
Doctoral advisorVladimir Arnold

References
  1. "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  2. Givental, Alexander (1996). "Equivariant Gromov - Witten Invariants". Intern.Math.Research Notes (13): 613–663. arXiv:alg-geom/9603021.
  3. Alexander Givental, Elysee Wilson-Egolf. "Verse Translations from Russian". Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  4. Andrey Kiselyov. "Elementary Geometry". Sumizdat. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. Tsvetaeva, Marina (2013). Givental, Alexander; Wilson-Egolf, Elysee (eds.). To You - in 10 Decades. Sumizdat. p. 88. ISBN 978-0977985272.
  • Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
  • Sumizdat, publisher of English translation of Geometry
  • MAA review of Geometry


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