From Osher Doctorow
Mikhail L. Gromov (a mathematician) of France is an exception to my
criticism about the paucity of Creative Geniuses from 1930 onward among
French physicists and mathematicians in my recent thread, although his
Ph.D. at U. Leningrad in 1968 under Vladimir Rokhlin (the latter
obtained his Ph.D. under the Committee composed of Andrei Kolmogorov
and Lev Pontryagin) probably explains much of Gromov's success in
France and SUNY Stoney Brook. Gromov is famous for, among things, the
Gromov-Witten invariants, and appears to have been more interested in
intersections and locality than in avoiding intersections and in
nonlocality.
Osher Doctorow
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