Nicolai Yuryevich Reshetikhin (russian: Николай Юрьевич Решетихин, born October 10, 1958 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Soviet Union
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) is a
mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at
Tsinghua University
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The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...
,
China and a professor of mathematical physics at the
University of Amsterdam
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(
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics). He is also a professor emeritus at the
University of California
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,
Berkeley. His research is in the fields of
low-dimensional topology,
representation theory, and
quantum groups. His major contributions are in the theory of quantum integrable systems, in representation theory of quantum groups
and in
quantum topology. He and
Vladimir Turaev constructed invariants of 3-manifolds
which are expected to describe quantum Chern-Simons field theory introduced by
Edward Witten.
He earned his
bachelor's degree
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and
master's degree
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Leningrad State University in 1982, and his
Ph.D. from the
Steklov Mathematical Institute in 1984.
He gave a
plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. He was named a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to the theory of quantum groups, integrable systems, topology, and quantum physics".
See also
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Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Mathematicians from Saint Petersburg
Topologists
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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