Mikhail Goussarov

Russian mathematician

Mikhail Goussarov (March 8, 1958, Leningrad – June 25, 1999, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet mathematician who worked in low-dimensional topology. He and Victor Vassiliev independently discovered finite type invariants of knots and links. He drowned at the age of 41 in an accident in Tel Aviv, Israel.

See also

  • Memorial page maintained by Dror Bar-Natan.
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