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Caucher Birkar is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Born July 1978 · Q4121788
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The counterintuitive idea introduced by Scholze is that to study a geometric object, you might instead want to find a mapping from a space which is so grotesque and twisted that in some sense it cannot be twisted up any more. The result is that instead of ending up having to solve complicated questions about simple objects, you have to solve simple questions about extremely complicated objects.
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“A lot of the time when you do math, you’re stuck, but at the same time there are all these moments where you feel privileged that you get to work with it. “You have this sensation of transcendence, you feel like you’ve been part of something really meaningful.”
“The counterintuitive idea introduced by Scholze is that to study a geometric object, you might instead want to find a mapping from a space which is so grotesque and twisted that in some sense it cannot be twisted up any more. The result is that instead of ending up having to solve complicated questions about simple objects, you have to solve simple questions about extremely complicated objects.”
“put a little smile on the lips”
Was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Birkar joined Tsinghua University as a tenured professor
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Published “Generalised pairs in birational geometry” in EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences — cited 18 times.
Published “Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties” in Annals of Mathematics — cited 110 times.
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2019).
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Published “Anti-pluricanonical systems on Fano varieties” in Annals of Mathematics — cited 99 times.
Newsweek: Who Is Caucher Birkar? Professor Wins ‘Nobel Prize of Mathematics,’ Was Stolen From Him Minutes Later
International Business Times: Fields Medal: Caucher Birkar’s ‘Nobel For Mathematics’ Stolen Minutes After Being Awarded
Awarded Whitehead Prize (2018).
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Won Fields medal (2018).
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"for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program"
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Birkar was given the Fields Medal for his work on Fano varieties and other contributions to the minimal model problem
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Published “Existence of Mori fibre spaces for 3-folds in char p” in Advances in Mathematics — cited 41 times.
Awarded Moore prize (2016).
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Published “Existence of flips and minimal models for 3-folds in char $p$” in Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure — cited 58 times.
Published “The augmented base locus of real divisors over arbitrary fields” in Mathematische Annalen — cited 21 times.
Published “Effectivity of Iitaka fibrations and pluricanonical systems of polarized pairs” in Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS — cited 70 times.
Published “Singularities on the base of a Fano type fibration” in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) — cited 21 times.
Published “Existence of log canonical flips and a special LMMP” in Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS — cited 79 times.
Awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010).
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Published “On existence of log minimal models” in Compositio Mathematica — cited 19 times.
Received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log genera
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Published “Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type” in Journal of the American Mathematical Society — cited 699 times.
Published “Ascending chain condition for log canonical thresholds and termination of log flips” in Duke Mathematical Journal — cited 30 times.
Was awarded the Cecil King Travel Scholarship by the London Mathematical Society as the most promising PhD student
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And, shortly after, while still studying in the university, relocated to the UK as a refugee and asked for political asylum
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Born 1978-07.
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In Marivan County, Kurdistan province, Iran, on a subsistence farm, and raised during the Iran-Iraq War
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