The Strange and Wonderful World
of Symplectic Geometry
TNQ’s Inaugural Mathematics Speaker – Professor Yakov Eliashberg.
For over thirty years, Russian-American Yakov Eliashberg has
helped to shape and research the field of mathematics known as
symplectic topology. Together with Alexander Givental and Helmut
Hofer, he pioneered the foundations of symplectic field theory.
Symplectic and contact topology originated as a mathematical
language for the qualitative problems of classical mechanics. It
has deep connections with modern physics. The emergence of
symplectic and contact topology has been one of the most important
and long-term advances in mathematical research in recent decades.
Eliashberg is a leading expert in this field.
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