Yair Nathan Minsky is an American mathematician whose research concerns three-dimensional topology, differential geometry, group theory and holomorphic dynamics.
Education
Minsky obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1989 under the supervision of William Paul Thurston, with the thesis Harmonic Maps and Hyperbolic Geometry. His Doctor of Philosophy students include Jason Behrstock, Erica Klarreich and Kasra Rafi.
Career
He is a professor at Yale University. ICM (Madrid) 2006 Coxeter lectures (Fields Institute) 2006 Mallat Lectures (Technion) 2008 “When Thurston proposed it, the virtual Haken conjecture seemed like a small question, but it hung on stubbornly, shining a spotlight on how little we knew about the field”.
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“When Thurston proposed it, the virtual Haken conjecture seemed like a small question, but it hung on stubbornly, shining a spotlight on how little we knew about the field”.