Alexander Nabutovsky is a leading Canadian
mathematician specializing in
differential geometry
Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...
, geometric
calculus of variations
The calculus of variations (or Variational Calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions
and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...
and quantitative aspects of topology of manifolds. He is a professor at the
University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.
Nabutovsky earned a
Ph.D. degree from the
Weizmann Institute of Science
in 1993; his advisor was Shmuel Kiro.
He was an invited speaker on "''Geometry''" at
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
, 2010 in
Hyderabad.
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Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Geometers
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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