Caucher Birkar

Kurdish mathematician

Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge.[4]

Caucher Birkar
کۆچەر بیرکار

Birkar in 2018
Born
Fereydoun Derakhshani[1][2]

1978 (age 45–46)
Ney, Marivan County, Imperial Iran
CitizenshipIran, Britain - dual citizenship
Alma materUniversity of Tehran (BSc)
University of Nottingham (PhD)
Children1
AwardsLeverhulme Prize (2010)
Moore Prize (2016)
Fields Medal (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsTsinghua University
University of Cambridge
ThesisTopics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004)
Doctoral advisor
  • Ivan Fesenko
  • Vyacheslav Shokurov
Influenceselder brother[3]
Websitewww.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~cb496

During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, he was awarded a Fields Medal, although it was stolen few minutes after he got it.

References

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  1. "جایزه معادل "نوبل ریاضی" به یک کرد ایرانی پناهنده به بریتانیا رسید". VoA (in Persian). 1 August 2018.
  2. "چرا مریم میرزاخانی و کوچر بیرکار مهاجرت کردند؟". BBC (in Persian). 3 August 2018.
  3. "Caucher Birkar's family celebrates Fields Medal win". August 4, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-02-08. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  4. "Caucher Birkar - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2022-08-27.