Nicolai Jurieviç Reshetikhin (born
October 10,
1958 in
Leningrad,
USSR) is a
mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Berkeley. His research is in the fields of
low-dimensional topology,
representation theory, and
quantum groups. His major contribution is in the field of
quantum topology, which he developed with
Edward Witten and
Vladimir Turaev.
He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Leningrad University in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in 1984.
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