Vladimir Drinfeld
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Vladimir Drinfeld is a Ukrainian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in quantum groups, the Langlands program, and algebraic geometry, for which he received the Fields Medal.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vladimir Drinfeld canonical | 6 |
| Drinfeld | 1 |
| Vladimir Drinfeld (as collaborator rather than student) | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vladimir Drinfeld Context triple: [Alexander Grothendieck, influenced, Vladimir Drinfeld]
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Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician renowned for his work in algebraic geometry and homotopy theory, and for founding the field of motivic cohomology, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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B.
Boris Gromov
Boris Gromov is a retired Soviet general and Russian politician best known for commanding the 40th Army in Afghanistan and being the last Soviet commander to withdraw troops from the country in 1989.
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Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Nikulin was a beloved Soviet and Russian clown and film actor, renowned for his work in the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and for starring in many classic Soviet comedies.
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D.
Igor Klebanov
Igor Klebanov is a theoretical physicist known for influential contributions to string theory, gauge/gravity duality, and related areas of high-energy physics.
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E.
Israel Gelfand
Israel Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and later American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to functional analysis, representation theory, and many other areas of modern mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vladimir Drinfeld Target entity description: Vladimir Drinfeld is a Ukrainian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in quantum groups, the Langlands program, and algebraic geometry, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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A.
Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician renowned for his work in algebraic geometry and homotopy theory, and for founding the field of motivic cohomology, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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B.
Boris Gromov
Boris Gromov is a retired Soviet general and Russian politician best known for commanding the 40th Army in Afghanistan and being the last Soviet commander to withdraw troops from the country in 1989.
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C.
Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Nikulin was a beloved Soviet and Russian clown and film actor, renowned for his work in the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and for starring in many classic Soviet comedies.
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D.
Igor Klebanov
Igor Klebanov is a theoretical physicist known for influential contributions to string theory, gauge/gravity duality, and related areas of high-energy physics.
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E.
Israel Gelfand
Israel Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and later American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to functional analysis, representation theory, and many other areas of modern mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ukrainian-American mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Yuri Manin ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fields Medal
ⓘ
Foreign Member of the Royal Society ⓘ
surface form:
Foreign Membership of the Royal Society
Leroy P. Steele Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1954-02-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kharkiv ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Ukraine
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United States of America ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Langlands program
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surface form:
geometric Langlands program
theory of automorphic forms ⓘ theory of quantum groups ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Moscow State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| familyName |
Vladimir Drinfeld
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Drinfeld
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| fieldOfWork |
algebraic geometry
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mathematical physics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ representation theory ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Vladimir ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Drinfeld associators
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Drinfeld modules ⓘ Drinfeld–Jimbo quantum groups ⓘ Langlands program ⓘ algebraic geometry ⓘ elliptic modules ⓘ Langlands program ⓘ
surface form:
geometric Langlands correspondence
quantum groups ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Academy of Sciences
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surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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| name | Vladimir Drinfeld self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage |
Russian
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Ukrainian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
work on Langlands conjectures for GL(2) over function fields
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“Quantum Groups” ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago ⓘ |
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Subject: Vladimir Drinfeld Description of subject: Vladimir Drinfeld is a Ukrainian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in quantum groups, the Langlands program, and algebraic geometry, for which he received the Fields Medal.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vladimir Drinfeld (as collaborator rather than student)
this entity surface form:
Drinfeld