Leonid Polterovich
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Leonid Polterovich is a Russia
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n-Israel
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i mathematician
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 at Tel Aviv University
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. His research field includes symplectic geometry and dynamic systems.

A native of Moscow
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, Polterovich earned his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University
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 in 1984. He moved to Israel after the collapse of communism
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, earning his doctorate from Tel Aviv University
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 in 1990. In 1996, he was awarded the EMS Prize, and in 1998 the Erdős Prize
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