Victor Kolyvagin Explained

Victor Kolyvagin
Nationality:Russian
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:Johns Hopkins University
CUNY Graduate Center
Alma Mater:Moscow State University
Doctoral Advisor:Yuri Manin

Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin (Russian: Виктор Александрович Колывагин, born 11 March, 1955) is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Iwasawa's conjecture for cyclotomic fields.[1] His work also influenced Andrew Wiles's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.[2]

Career

Kolyvagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 from Moscow State University, where his advisor was Yuri I. Manin. He then worked at Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow[3] until 1994. Since 1994 he has been a professor of mathematics in the United States. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University until 2002 when he became the first person to hold the Mina Rees Chair in mathematics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[4] [5]

Awards

In 1990 he received the of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Rubin , Karl . Euler Systems. Annals of Mathematics Studies. Princeton University Press. 2000. 0-691-05075-9.
  2. Getting a Grip on Elliptic Curves Author. Barry A.. Cipra. Barry Arthur Cipra. Science . New Series. 243. 4887. January 6, 1989. 30–31. American Association for the Advancement of Science Stable . 1703169. 10.1126/science.243.4887.30 . 17780417. live. https://archive.today/20221105045450/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.243.4887.30. 2022-11-05.
  3. Fermat Proof Hits a Stumbling Block . Barry . Cipra. American Association for the Advancement of Science . Science. 1993 . 2882956 . 263. 5142. 10.1126/science.262.5142.1967-a . 1967–8 . 1993Sci...262.1967C .
  4. News: Targeted News Service. 2009-12-22. NSF Invests a Million Dollars in Number Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center.
  5. News: Benefactor's Chair Filled at CUNY. Karen W. . Arenson . August 7, 2002 . The New York Times.