THE SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 2012
is awarded to
MAXIM KONTSEVICH
for his pioneering works in algebra, geometry and mathematical physics and in particular deformation quantization, motivic integration and mirror symmetry.
29 May 2012
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