Yevgeny Berkovich

Russian mathematician

Yevgeny Berkovich worked in mathematics at a period when the field's own foundations were under discussion.

The record lists Yevgeny Berkovich as Russian mathematician.

Yevgeny Berkovich was born at Irkutsk in 1945. His recorded nationality is Russia. He studied at MSU Faculty of Physics.

Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.

The recorded fields of work are mathematics.

A theorem is permanent in a way no experiment can be, which raises the standard for entry.

The honours record reads: Medal "For Labour Valour", Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1988) and Alexander Belyayev Prize (2019).

That the work was done from Russia matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

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