Mikhail Khovanov
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Михаил Гелиевич Хованов
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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Professor of Mathematics |
| Employer | Columbia University |
| Known for | Khovanov homology, categorification |
| Notable work | A categorification of the Jones polynomial |
| Relatives | Tanya Khovanova (half-sister) |
Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 1972) is a Russian-American professor of mathematicsatColumbia University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology. He is known for introducing Khovanov homology for links,[1][2] which was one of the first examples of categorification.
Khovanov graduated from Moscow State School 57 mathematical class in 1988.[3] He earned a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1997,[4] where he studied under Igor Frenkel.[5]
Khovanov was a faculty member at UC Davis before moving to Columbia University.[6]
He is a half-brother of Tanya Khovanova.
"Our hope for the week was to understand and improve Khovanov's seminal work on the categorification of the Jones polynomial" (Page 337).
"Mikhail Khovanov was in the department when he developed the famous homology theory that bears his name."
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