Askold Khovanskii elected to the Royal Society of Canada 2020

October 5, 2020 by Lidya Farag

 

Professor Askold Khovanskii has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada 2020

KHOVANSKII, Askold – Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto Askold Khovanskii is an internationally recognized scientist whose research has had a great impact on the mathematical and computer sciences communities. His solutions of deep and complex problems seem simple and natural. He created topological Galois theory (a totally new branch of classical Galois theory) and the highly original theory of fewnomials (in complexity theory). He is one of the creators of the theories of Newton polyhedra and of Newton-Okounkov bodies.

 

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