Mathematician:Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis

Mathematician

Russian mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into Diophantine approximation.

Fields Medal

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1978}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups. His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups.

Wolf Prize

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {2005}$:

For his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory.

Abel Prize

Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis was awarded an Abel Prize with Hillel Furstenberg in $\text {2020}$:

For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.

Nationality

Russian

History

• Born: 24 February 1946 in Moscow, Soviet Union

Publications

• 1991: Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups

Also known as

In Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис

First name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive