Alexander B. Goncharov (born April 7, 1960) is a Soviet American

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and the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at

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. He won the

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in 1992. Goncharov won a gold medal at the

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in 1976. He attained his

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in 1987, under supervision of

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with thesis ''Generalized conformal structures on manifolds''. Goncharov was an Invited Speaker at the 1994

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and gave a talk '' Polylogarithms in arithmetic and geometry''. In 2019, Goncharov was appointed the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, as well as the Gretchen and Barry Mazur Chair at the

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Selected publications

* * (with A. M. Levin) * * (with P. Deligne) * (with V. V. Fock) * (with V. V. Fock) * (with H. Gangl, A. Levin) * (with V. V. Fock) * (with R. Kenyon) * (with T. Dimofte, M. Gabella) * (with J. Golden, M. Spradlin, C. Vergu, A. Volovich)

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Website at Yale University
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goncharov, Alexander 1960 births Living people American people of Russian descent 20th-century American mathematicians Brown University faculty International Mathematical Olympiad participants Soviet mathematicians Russian mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Yale University alumni

Selected publications

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