Yakov Eliashberg

Who is this?

Yakov Matveevich Eliashberg (also Yasha Eliashberg; Russian: Яков Матвеевич Элиашберг; born 11 December 1946) is an American mathematician who was born in Leningrad, USSR. He is the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. His research interests are differential topology, symplectic topology, and contact topology. He was awarded many prizes for his work, including the Wolf Prize in 2020 (shared with Simon Donaldson).

Career

1. 1946
   Born
2. 2001
   Won Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
3. 2003
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
4. 2009
   Won honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
5. 2012
   Member of American Mathematical Society
6. 2013
   Won Heinz Hopf Prize
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Won Guggenheim Fellowship
9. Won Crafoord Prize

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Saint Petersburg
• •Citizenship: Russia, Soviet Union
• •Known as: mathematician, university teacher, academic