Sergei Novikov (mathematician)
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Sergei Petrovich Novikov (also Serguei) (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Но́виков; born 20 March 1938) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. In 1970, he won the Fields Medal.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Novikov.
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Sergei Novikov | |
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Сергей Новиков | |
Born | (1938-03-20) 20 March 1938 (age 86) |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Adams–Novikov spectral sequence Krichever–Novikov algebras Morse–Novikov theory Novikov conjecture Novikov ring Novikov–Shubin invariant Novikov–Veselov equation Novikov's compact leaf theorem Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model |
Awards | Lenin Prize (1967) Fields Medal (1970) Lobachevsky Medal (1981) Wolf Prize (2005) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Moscow State University Independent University of Moscow Steklov Institute of Mathematics University of Maryland |
Doctoral advisor | Mikhail Postnikov |
Doctoral students | Victor Buchstaber Boris Dubrovin Sabir Gusein-Zade Gennadi Kasparov [de] Alexandr Mishchenko Iskander Taimanov Anton Zorich Fedor Bogomolov |
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