Mikhail "Mischa" Gershevich Katz (born 1958, in Chișinău)Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2011-05-23. is an Israeli

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, a professor of mathematics at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic ...

. His main interests are differential geometry,

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and

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; he is the author of the book ''Systolic Geometry and Topology'', which is mainly about systolic geometry. The Katz–Sabourau inequality is named after him and Stéphane Sabourau.

Biography

Mikhail Katz was born in Chișinău in 1958. His mother was Clara Katz (

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Landman). In 1976, he moved with his mother to the United States. Katz earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. He did his graduate studies at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, receiving his Ph.D. in 1984 under the joint supervision of Troels Jørgensen and Mikhael Gromov. His thesis title is ''Jung's Theorem in Complex Projective Geometry.'' He moved to

in 1999, after previously holding positions at the

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, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, the University of Rennes 1, Henri Poincaré University, and

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

Work

Katz has performed research in systolic geometry in collaboration with

Luigi Ambrosio Luigi Ambrosio (born 27 January 1963) is a professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His main fields of research are the calculus of variations and geometric measure theory. Biography Ambrosio entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di ...

Victor Bangert Victor Bangert (born 28 November 1950) is Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematisches Institut in Freiburg, Germany. His main interests are differential geometry and dynamical systems theory. He specialises in the theory of closed geodesics, w ...

, Mikhail Gromov, Steve Shnider, Shmuel Weinberger, and others. He has authored research publications appearing in journals including '' Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Duke Mathematical Journal,

Geometric and Functional Analysis ''Geometric and Functional Analysis'' (''GAFA'') is a mathematical journal published by Birkhäuser, an independent division of Springer-Verlag. The journal is published approximately bi-monthly. The journal publishes papers on broad range of to ...

'', and '' Journal of Differential Geometry''. Along with these papers, Katz was a contributor to the book "

Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces ''Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces'' is a book in geometry by Mikhail Gromov. It was originally published in French in 1981 under the title ''Structures métriques pour les variétés riemanniennes'', by CEDIC (Paris). ...

Marcel Berger Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France. Formerly residing in Le Castera in Las ...

in his article "What is... a Systole?" lists the book (Katz, 2007) as one of two books he cites in systolic geometry. More recently Katz also contributed to the study of

including work that provides an alternative interpretation of the number 0.999....Stewart, I. (2009) ''Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures'', Profile Books, p. 174.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Mikhail Katz's home page
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