Grigory Margulis
Russian-American mathematician
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. Wikipedia
Born: 1946 (age 78 years), Moscow, Russia
Doctoral students: Emmanuel Breuillard; Hee Oh
Academic advisor: Yakov Sinai
Awards: Abel Prize, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and Fields Medal
Fields: Mathematics