Yakov Eliashberg, Russian mathematician: «I came to work as a night watchman in a garage. “I’m banned”

2024-08-26 02:04:56
Mathematician Yakov Eliashberg (Leningrad, 1946, now Saint Petersburg) was on the verge of forcibly abandoning his work, which he never even started. Professor at Stanford University (USA) since 1989, this celebrity of the so-called symplectic geometry, something very difficult to explain but which is related to understanding large-scale fields, commits two great sins in the eyes of the Soviet government. First, being of Jewish descent. The second, his family’s decision to emigrate to the United States Reason enough to stop being a reliable person and, therefore, become a kind of insect. Despite everything, the researcher managed to move forward, leave the country and gain international recognition. Between… See More
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