Education
Shapiro enrolled on Doctor of Philosophy studies at Moscow State University, Soviet Union in 1985 as a student of Vladimir Arnold, but his thesis defense was rejected by the examining committee.
Shapiro enrolled on Doctor of Philosophy studies at Moscow State University, Soviet Union in 1985 as a student of Vladimir Arnold, but his thesis defense was rejected by the examining committee.
The Shapiro–Shapiro conjecture (or simply Shapiro conjecture) was named after Michael Shapiro and him (it is now the well-known Mukhin–Tarasov–Varchenko theorem).
He then defended the same thesis at Stockholm University, Sweden in 1990, and was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy He is a professor at Stockholm University since 1993.