Russian-American mathematician, winner of the 2002 Fields Medal Vladimir Voevodsky, has died at the age of 51 on September 30.
His prize was awarded due to his work “defining and developing motivic cohomology and the A1-homotopy theory of algebraic varieties; he proved the Milnor conjectures on the K-theory of fields”
Described by his colleagues at the IAS as “a truly extraordinary and original mathematician”, Voevodsky worked mainly in algebraic topology, geometry and K-theory. More recently his work had turned to type-theoretic formalisations of mathematics, and formal proof-checking programmes, the Aperiodical reported.
Originally from Moscow, Vladimir Voevodsky gained a degree from Moscow State University in 1989, and a PhD from Harvard in 1992.
