Victor Vladimirovich Goryunov is a Russian mathematician born in 1956. He is a leading figure in

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, whose contributions to the subject are fundamental. He has published several books and a variety of papers in

singularity theory In mathematics, singularity theory studies spaces that are almost manifolds, but not quite. A string can serve as an example of a one-dimensional manifold, if one neglects its thickness. A singularity can be made by balling it up, dropping it ...

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s, and

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s. Many of his papers in

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and Legendrian geometry are now considered to be classical in the subject. Goryunov completed his

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thesis, titled "''Surface projection singularities''", at

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

's Lomonosov State University in 1981, under the direction of

Vladimir Arnold Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, russian: link=no, Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–A ...

. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

.University of Liverpool webpage
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Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

Publications

He is the co-author of two published books. * * Since 1978, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles. A list of recent publications and preprints, together with PDF files, can be foun
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A list of earlier publications can be found o

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* * Academics of the University of Liverpool Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Moscow State University alumni Topologists Mathematicians from Moscow 1956 births {{Russia-mathematician-stub