Education
Voevodsky attended Moscow State University and received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992, advised by David Kazhdan.
mathematician university professor topologist
Voevodsky attended Moscow State University and received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992, advised by David Kazhdan.
He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch-Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory. More information about his work can be found on his website. Vladimir Voevodsky"s father, Aleksander Voevodsky, was head of the Laboratory of High Energy Leptons in the Institute for Nuclear Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
His mother was a chemistry
Currently he is a full professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. While he was a first year undergraduate, he was given a copy of Esquisse d"un Programme (submitted a few months earlier by Alexander Grothendieck to National Center for Scientific Research) by his advisor George Shabat.
He learnt the French language "with the sole purpose of being able to read this text" and started his research on some of the themes mentioned there.