![]() ![]() at Harvard University in 1991, after one year of study, under the direction of Boris Feigin and Joseph Bernstein. After receiving his degree in 1989, he was first invited to Harvard University as a visiting professor, and a year later he enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard. ![]() While a student there, he attended the seminar of Israel Gelfand and worked with Boris Feigin and Dmitry Fuchs. He was not admitted to Moscow State University because of discrimination against Jews and enrolled instead in the applied mathematics program at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. As a high school student he studied higher mathematics privately with Evgeny Evgenievich Petrov, although his initial interest was in quantum physics rather than mathematics. His father is of Jewish descent and his mother is Russian. ![]() Edward Frenkel was born on May 2, 1968, in Kolomna, Russia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. ![]()
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