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to a Jewish family, where her father was a plant physiologist and her mother a chemist. Ratner's mother was fired from work in the 1940s for writing to her mother in Israel, then considered an enemy of the Soviet state. Ratner gained an interest in mathematics in her fifth grade. From 1956 to 1961,
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and his group. After graduation, she spent four years working in Kolmogorov's applied statistics group. Following this, she returned to Moscow State university for graduate studies were under
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at Berkeley and later emigrated to the United States and became a professor of mathematics at Berkeley. Her work included proofs of conjectures dealing with unipotent flows on quotients of
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in 1994. she became only the third woman plenary speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994.
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Ratner, Marina (1995). "Interactions Between Ergodic Theory, Lie Groups, and Number Theory".
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Ratner, Marina (1990). "Strict measure rigidity for unipotent subgroups of solvable groups".
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Geodesic Flows on Unit Tangent Bundles of Compact Surfaces of Negative Curvature
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Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley
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Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Mathematicians : an outer view of the inner world
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For this and other work, she won the 225:from the National Academy of Sciences. 711: 464: 374: 339: 294: 686: 521:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 211:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 744:21st-century American mathematicians 739:20th-century American mathematicians 629: 560: 534: 468:Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows 784:20th-century Russian mathematicians 13: 188:University of California, Berkeley 136:University of California, Berkeley 14: 805: 613:"Soviet refusenik to be released" 514:"LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS BY CLASS" 246:. Here, she became interested in 16:Russian mathematician (1938–2017) 680: 656: 623: 604: 589: 506: 458: 433: 409: 1: 611:Hartsock, John (1987-12-03). 600:Mathematics Genealogy Project 576:mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk 402: 385:10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_13 219:National Academy of Sciences 209:. Ratner was elected to the 7: 764:Dynamical systems theorists 217:in 1993 and elected to the 10: 810: 794:21st-century American Jews 789:20th-century Russian women 754:Jewish American scientists 687:Ng-Yu, Maya (2017-07-28). 749:Jewish Russian scientists 571:"Marina Ratner biography" 184:Мари́на Евсе́евна Ра́тнер 183: 169: 157: 141: 131: 121: 114: 103: 93: 83: 65: 40: 28: 21: 779:Russian women scientists 297:Inventiones Mathematicae 229:Biographical information 340:Ratner, Marina (1990). 244:Moscow State University 98:Moscow State University 630:Cook, Mariana (2009). 176:Marina Evseevna Ratner 77:El Cerrito, California 693:The Daily Californian 465:Morris, Dave (2005). 289:Selected publications 213:in 1992, awarded the 35:Marina Ratner in 1988 379:. pp. 157–182. 548:on 29 December 2010 309:1990InMat.101..449R 233:Ratner was born in 223:John J. Carty Award 523:. 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Moscow
Russian SFSR
El Cerrito, California
Russian
Moscow State University
Ostrowski Prize
Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Yakov Sinai
Russian
University of California, Berkeley
ergodic theory
unipotent
flows
homogeneous spaces
Ratner's theorems
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ostrowski Prize
National Academy of Sciences
John J. Carty Award
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Moscow State University
probability theory
A.N. Kolmogorov
Yakov G. Sinai
Hebrew University

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