Alex Eskin, A Mathematician at the University of Chicago Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for Magic Wand Theorem

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Alex Eskin, a 54-year-old American mathematician born in Moscow, received the award for what the prize committee described as "revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials," specifically calling out his 2013 paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3320
with mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani that proved their "magic wand theorem." Read More https://www.livescience.com/breakthroug ... nners.html