2006 Fields Medal (2)
Reason for Award
for his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of theRicci flow
Laureates
Grigori Perelman,
Russian Federation
Other works in the same year
- for his contributions topartial differential equations,combinatorics,harmonic analysisand additive number theory
- for his contributions bridgingprobability,representation theoryandalgebraic geometry
- for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensionalBrownian motion, andconformal field theory