1990 Fields Medal (1)
Reason for Award
For his work onquantum groupsand for his work innumber theory.
Laureates
Vladimir Drinfeld, 1954年 - ）
Soviet Union
Other works in the same year
- for his discovery of an unexpected link between the mathematical study ofknots– a field that dates back to the 19th century – andstatistical mechanics, a form of mathematics used to study complex systems with large numbers of components.
- for the proof of Hartshorne’s conjecture and his work on the classification of three-dimensionalalgebraic varieties.
- proof in 1981 of the positive energy theorem ingeneral relativity