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Russian mathematician awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for 2001Seattle, WA, March 12, 2001 -- Today at the largest
physics meeting of the year, the American Institute of Physics (AIP)
and the American Physical Society (APS) presented the Dannie Heineman
Prize for Mathematical Physics for 2001 to Russian mathematician Vladimir
Igorevich Arnol'd. Found inside a black hole, a singularity is a point or ring in which the curvature of spacetime is infinitely large. Arnol'd has contributed greatly to the understanding of the geometry and mathematics of such objects. A member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arnol'd received his undergraduate degree from Moscow University in 1959, and his Ph.D. from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in 1963. He has served as a professor at Moscow State University, and is currently a professor at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the president of the Russian Mathematical Society. The Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics was created in 1959 by the Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, Inc., and is awarded jointly by AIP and APS to a scientist for "valuable published contributions made in the field of mathematical physics."
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