Nikolai Georgievich Makarov, Date of Birth
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Russian university teacher
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About Nikolai Georgievich Makarov
- Nikolai Georgievich Makarov, (??????? ?????????? ???????, born January 1955), is a Russian mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis. Makarov belongs to the Leningrad school of geometric function theory.
- He studied at the Leningrad State University with undergraduate degree in 1982 and with Ph.D.
- (Candidate of Science) in 1986 under Nikolai Nikolski with thesis Metric properties of harmonic measure (title translated from Russian).
- In 1986 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Berkeley, California.
- In 1986 he was awarded the Salem Prize for solving difficult problems involving the boundary behavior of the conformal mapping of a disk onto a domain with a Jordan curve boundary using stochastic methods.
- He was an academic at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Leningrad.
- Since the 1990s he has been a professor at Caltech. His doctoral students include the Fields medallist Stanislav Smirnov and Dapeng Zhan.
- With Zhan, Makarov published research on the stochastic properties of iterated polynomial maps (theory of Julia sets).
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