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Caucher Birkar
Kurdish mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurd mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University[3].
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Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
Citizenship | Iran, Britain – dual citizenship |
Alma mater | University of Tehran (BSc) University of Nottingham (PhD) |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2010) Moore Prize (2016) Fields Medal (2018) |
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Institutions | Tsinghua University University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004) |
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Website | www |
Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry.[4] In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry,[5] and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type".[6] He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program".[7] In his office at the University, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist.[8]