Education
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Yale University in 1997, where he studied under Igor Frenkel.
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Mikhail Khovanov
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His interests include knot theory and algebraic topology. He is known for the Khovanov homology for links, introduced in his paper "A categorification of the Jones polynomial", which he published while at University of California Davis. This was one of the first examples of categorification and is quoted in knot theory.
