Yakov Eliashberg
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Yakov Eliashberg is a prominent Russian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to symplectic and contact topology.
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| Yakov Eliashberg canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yakov Eliashberg Context triple: [Lawrence Guth, hasAcademicAdvisor, Yakov Eliashberg]
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Sergei Gelfand
Sergei Gelfand is a mathematician known as one of the prominent students and collaborators of the influential Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.
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G. M. Eliashberg
G. M. Eliashberg is a theoretical physicist best known for formulating Eliashberg theory, which extends BCS superconductivity to include strong electron-phonon interactions.
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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.
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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro was a prominent Soviet-Israeli mathematician known for his influential work in number theory, representation theory, and automorphic forms.
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E.
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.
- 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: Yakov Eliashberg Target entity description: Yakov Eliashberg is a prominent Russian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to symplectic and contact topology.
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A.
Sergei Gelfand
Sergei Gelfand is a mathematician known as one of the prominent students and collaborators of the influential Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.
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B.
G. M. Eliashberg
G. M. Eliashberg is a theoretical physicist best known for formulating Eliashberg theory, which extends BCS superconductivity to include strong electron-phonon interactions.
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C.
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.
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D.
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro was a prominent Soviet-Israeli mathematician known for his influential work in number theory, representation theory, and automorphic forms.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ |
| affiliation | American Mathematical Society ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
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Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry ⓘ
linked to:
Oswald Veblen Prize
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
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United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor |
Vladimir Rokhlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Владимир Рохлин
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| educatedAt | Leningrad State University ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Eliashberg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contact topology
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differential topology ⓘ low-dimensional topology ⓘ symplectic topology ⓘ |
| givenName | Yakov ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
geometry
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topology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
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| notableFor |
applications of the h-principle in geometry and topology
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development of modern contact topology ⓘ foundational contributions to contact topology ⓘ foundational contributions to symplectic topology ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Emmy Murphy
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Tobias Ekholm ⓘ |
| notableWork |
classification of tight contact structures on 3-manifolds
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contributions to Gromov–Eliashberg theory in symplectic topology ⓘ h-principle in symplectic and contact topology ⓘ
linked to:
h-principle in geometry
work on symplectic fillings of contact manifolds ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California ⓘ |
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