Vladimir Voevodsky

Владимир Александрович Воеводский

4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017

Vladimir Voevodsky was an algebraist with a deep understanding of topology who found novel ways to apply topology to algebraic geometry and to the foundations and formalization of mathematics. His work on foundations was interrupted by his sudden death in September, 2017. This web site commemorates his work and his life and serves as an archive of his works, both complete and incomplete, for those wishing to examine and to extend his work.

His home page

• Home | Vladimir Voevodsky
  • Publications
  • Lectures
  • Current Work
  • Other
• Curriculum Vitae, dated 2010
• Publication list, dated 2010

Publications, preprints, and talks

• Publications, complete and incomplete, annotated, with links to working files
• IAS Videos of talks
• Author page at MathScinet
• Author page at Zentralblatt
• ORCID ID 0000-0001-7823-4454

Obituaries and commentary

• Institute for Advanced Study, October 4, 2017.
• New York Times, October 6, 2017.
• Washington Post, October 7, 2017.
• Quanta Magazine, October 11, 2017.
• Vladimir Voevodsky - Work and Destiny, by Mark Bickford, Fedor Bogomolov, and Yuri Tschinkel, October 14, 2017.
• Nature, by Daniel R. Grayson, November 6, 2017.
• Георгий Шабат: Воеводский своей жизнью доказал, что надо развивать безумные идеи, March 3, 2018, youtube video.
  An interview with George Shabat, an early mentor and co-author of Voevodsky, about his life and work, with a translation into English.
• In Memoriam: Vladimir Voevodsky 1966-2017, by Daniel R. Grayson, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 24, Issue 2, June, 2018, pp. 186-191. Published online: 07 August 2018.
• Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 55, Number 4
  • In memoriam: Vladimir Voevodsky, by Eric M. Friedlander, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 403-404; DOI 10.1090/bull/1636.
  • Vladimir Voevodsky - An appreciation, by Marc Levine, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 405-425; DOI 10.1090/bull/1637.
  • An introduction to univalent foundations for mathematicians, by Daniel R. Grayson, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 427-450; DOI 10.1090/bull/1616.
• Foundations of Mathematics and Theoretical Biology, a special issue of the journal BioSystems, dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Voevodsky, edited by Elena Fimmel and Andrei Rodin, 2021.

Events

• Memorial gathering, Princeton, October 8, 2017.
• Memorial Events in Honor of Vladimir Voevodsky in Moscow, December 27-28, 2017.
• One-day conference dedicated to the memory of Vladimir A. Voevodsky, December 28, 2017, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow.
• Vladimir Voevodsky Memorial Conference, September 11-14, 2018, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the poster, and the videos.

Biography, interviews, and his work

• По большому филдсовскому счету, an interview with Vladimir Voevodsky and George Shabat, October, 2002, and an interview with Laurent Lafforgue, November, 2002, conducted by Olga Orlova.
• Voevodsky's mathematical revolution, by Julie Rehmeyer, October 1, 2013, Scientific American guest blog.
• Vladimir Voevodsky, Wikipedia
• Vladimir Voevodsky, nLab
• Motivic cohomology, Wikipedia
• Univalent Foundations, Wikipedia
• Vladimir Voevodsky, Math-Net.Ru.
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Voevodsky, by J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson; and a Spanish translation.

His photos

• journal with photos

This web site is maintained by Dan Grayson. Please contact him with any corrections or suggestions.