Mikhail Gromov
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Mikhail Gromov is a prominent Russian-French mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in geometry, particularly in metric geometry, symplectic geometry, and geometric group theory.
All labels observed (2)
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| Mikhail Gromov canonical | 6 |
| Gromov | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mikhail Gromov Context triple: [Veblen Prize in Geometry, notableRecipient, Mikhail Gromov]
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A.
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov was a pioneering Soviet test pilot and aviation commander renowned for his record-setting long-distance flights and major contributions to early Soviet aeronautics.
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B.
Georgiy Gromov
Georgiy Gromov is an actor known for appearing in the science fiction war film "The Darkest Hour."
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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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Sergei Novikov
Sergei Novikov is a Russian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in topology, particularly in the fields of cobordism theory and the topology of manifolds, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Arnold was a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, catastrophe theory, and singularity theory.
- 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: Mikhail Gromov Target entity description: Mikhail Gromov is a prominent Russian-French mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in geometry, particularly in metric geometry, symplectic geometry, and geometric group theory.
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A.
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov was a pioneering Soviet test pilot and aviation commander renowned for his record-setting long-distance flights and major contributions to early Soviet aeronautics.
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B.
Georgiy Gromov
Georgiy Gromov is an actor known for appearing in the science fiction war film "The Darkest Hour."
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C.
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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D.
Sergei Novikov
Sergei Novikov is a Russian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in topology, particularly in the fields of cobordism theory and the topology of manifolds, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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E.
Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Arnold was a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, catastrophe theory, and singularity theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geometer
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Abel Prize
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Balzan Prize ⓘ Chern Medal ⓘ Lobachevsky Prize ⓘ Veblen Prize in Geometry ⓘ
surface form:
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Russia ⓘ |
| employer |
IHÉS
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New York University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mikhail Gromov
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surface form:
Gromov
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| fieldOfWork |
Riemannian geometry
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geometric group theory ⓘ geometry ⓘ global analysis ⓘ metric geometry ⓘ symplectic geometry ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Mikhail ⓘ |
| influenced |
coarse geometry
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modern geometric group theory ⓘ modern symplectic topology ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences
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surface form:
French Academy of Sciences
Royal Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
United States National Academy of Sciences
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| name | Mikhail Gromov self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gromov compactness theorem
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Gromov hyperbolic group ⓘ
surface form:
Gromov hyperbolic groups
Hausdorff metric ⓘ
surface form:
Gromov–Hausdorff convergence
Gromov–Hausdorff distance ⓘ Gromov’s filling radius ⓘ Gromov’s non-squeezing theorem ⓘ Gromov’s systolic inequality ⓘ Gromov’s theorem on groups of polynomial growth ⓘ concept of bounded cohomology ⓘ concept of random groups ⓘ h-principle in geometry ⓘ theory of pseudoholomorphic curves ⓘ work on coarse geometry ⓘ work on isoperimetric inequalities ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
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Partial Differential Relations ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
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