What is Vladimir Voevodsky?
[[File:VladimirVoevodsky.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Voevodsky in 2011]] '''Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky''' ({{IPAc-en|v|ɔɪ|ˈ|v|ɒ|d|s|k|i}}; {{lang-ru|Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Воево́дский}}, 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a [[Russia]]n-[[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He was born in [[Moscow]]. His work in developing a [[homotopy theory]] for [[algebraic varieties]] and formulating [[motivic cohomology]] led to the award of a [[Fields Medal]] in 2002. He was also known for the proof of the [[Milnor conjecture]] and motivic [[Bloch-Kato conjectures]] and for the [[univalent foundations]] of mathematics and [[homotopy type theory]]. Voevodsky died on September 30, 2017 at his home in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] of an [[aortic aneurysm]] at the age of 51.<ref name=ias>{{cite web | title=IAS: Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medalist, Dies at 51|url=https://www.ias.edu/news/2017/vladimir-voevodsky| access-date=2017-09-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Rehmeyer, Julie|date=6 October 2017|title=Vladimir Voevodsky, Revolutionary Mathematician, Dies at 51|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/vladimir-voevodsky-revolutionary-mathematician-dies-at-51.html}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Voevodsky, Vladimir}} [[Category:Fields Medalists]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from aortic aneurysm]] [[Category:Russian mathematicians]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Writers from Moscow]] [[Category:Writers from New Jersey]] {{US-bio-stub}}