[quote]The Institute for Advanced Study is deeply saddened by the passing of Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor in the School of Mathematics.
Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician, made many contributions to the field of mathematics, earning him numerous honors and awards, including the Fields Medal.
Celebrated for tackling the most difficult problems in abstract algebraic geometry, Voevodsky focused on the homotopy theory of schemes, algebraic K-theory, and interrelations between algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. He made one of the most outstanding advances in algebraic geometry in the past few decades by developing new cohomology theories for algebraic varieties. Among the consequences of his work are the solutions of the Milnor and Bloch-Kato Conjectures.
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[url]https://www.ias.edu/news/2017/vladimir-voevodsky[/url]
Not a whole lot of details. This is a rough year for Fields medalists dying relatively young after Mirzakhani.
For those playing along at home, the Fields Medal is analogous to the Nobel Prize, but for mathematics. (There's no Nobel Prize for mathematics). This guy was a titan in his field.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52735182]For those playing along at home, the Fields Medal is analogous to the Nobel Prize, but for mathematics. (There's no Nobel Prize for mathematics). This guy was a titan in his field.[/QUOTE]
The Fields Medal is perhaps even harder to get, since it's only given to people under 40. As of 2001 we now have the Abel Prize for math, which is structured to be a bit more closely analogous to the Nobel Prize.
Two in one year, such a shame.
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