Alexander Givental

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Alexander Givental

Nationality	Russian American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	California
Alma mater	Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Doctoral advisor	Vladimir Arnold
Known for	Arnold–Givental conjecture

Alexander Givental (Russian: Александр Борисович Гивенталь^[1]) is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories. He earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold. He provided the first proof of the mirror conjecture for toric Calabi-Yau manifolds, in particular for quintic hypersurfaces in P⁴. He is now Professor of Mathematics in University of California, Berkeley.

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↑ "Гивенталь Александр Борисович". Retrieved 2011-08-05.

Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999), Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-1059-6 .

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