%0 Journal Article %T The work of Andrei Okounkov %A Giovanni Felder %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X Andrei Okounkov received the Fields Medal at the ICM 2006 in Madrid "for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry". This is a brief account of his work. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609847v1