Mikhail Khovanov
Mikhail Khovanov | |
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Михаил Гелиевич Хованов | |
| Born | January 13, 1972 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian, American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Professor of Mathematics |
| Employer(s) | University of California, Davis Columbia University Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | Khovanov homology, categorification |
| Notable work | A categorification of the Jones polynomial |
| Relatives | Tanya Khovanova (half-sister) |
| Website | sites |
Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 13 January 1972) is a Russian professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology. He is known for introducing Khovanov homology for links, which was one of the first examples of categorification.