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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