Caucher Birkar
Kurdish mathematician
Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge.[4]
Caucher Birkar کۆچەر بیرکار | |
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 Birkar in 2018 | |
| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Ney, Marivan County, Imperial Iran |
| Citizenship | Iran, Britain - dual citizenship |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran (BSc) University of Nottingham (PhD) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2010) Moore Prize (2016) Fields Medal (2018) |
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| Institutions | Tsinghua University University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004) |
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| Influences | elder brother[3] |
| Website | www |
During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, he was awarded a Fields Medal, although it was stolen few minutes after he got it.
He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2019.[5]
References
change- ↑ "جایزه معادل "نوبل ریاضی" به یک کرد ایرانی پناهنده به بریتانیا رسید". VoA (in Persian). 1 August 2018.
- ↑ "چرا مریم میرزاخانی و کوچر بیرکار مهاجرت کردند؟". BBC (in Persian). 3 August 2018.
- ↑ "Caucher Birkar's family celebrates Fields Medal win". August 4, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-02-08. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ↑ "Caucher Birkar - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ↑ "Caucher Birkar". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 08 July 2022.
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