Andrey Todorov

Andrey Nikolov Todorov (Bulgarian Андрей Николов Тодоров, 4 May 1948 in Sofia, 30 March 2012) was a Bulgarian mathematician who studied algebraic geometry. He was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Todorov (2nd from the right) with Zafarevich (right), Bogomolov and Helmut Koch (left) in the Moscow apartment of Yevarevich

Todorov studied at the Lomonosov University, graduated in 1971, and was promoted to Igor Schafarewitsch in 1976 with a work on the Jordan decomposition of the monodromy operator with application to the moduli of K3 surfaces. From 1976 he worked in the Algebra Department of the Mathematical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he became a professor in 1984. From 1993 he was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He retired in 2008.

He was a guest professor at Harvard University and Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Study. He was a leading algebraic geometer in Bulgaria. Todorov dealt with Calabi-Yau manifolds and their moduli and especially moduli of K3 surfaces. The Bogomolov-Tian-Todorov theorem about the smoothness of the modulum of Calabi-Yau manifolds is named after him. The theorem is an important result of the deformation theory and is important in the theory of mirror symmetry with applications in the theory of strings. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): VIAF: 35179347 Wikipedia People Search

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