Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Leningrad University in 1972 under the direction of Vladimir Rokhlin.
mathematician university professor
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Leningrad University in 1972 under the direction of Vladimir Rokhlin.
From 1972 to 1979 he taught at the Syktyvkar State University of Komi Republic of Russia and from 1980 to 1987 worked in industry as the head of a computer software group. In 1988 Eliashberg moved to the United States, and since 1989 he has been a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. In 1986 and in 1998 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
He delivered the Porter Lectures at Rice University (1992), the Rademacher Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (1996), the Marston Morse Lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study (1996), the Frontiers in Mathematics Lectures at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University (1997), and the Marker Lectures at Pennsylvania State University (2000).
In 1995 Eliashberg was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences.