Aleksandr Khazanov

Who is Aleksandr Khazanov?

Aleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov was a Russian American mathematician. A child prodigy, he wrote a perfect paper at the International Mathematical Olympiad 1994, one of the youngest ever to do so. Khazanov was reported missing on June 17, 2001. He suffered from depression or bipolar disorder.

Born to Anna and Leonid Khazanov, a math professor, Aleksandr moved to the Brooklyn, New York, in 1992. He attended Stuyvesant High School, and was named a finalist and eventually placed 7th at the 54th Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a paper dealing with a variance of Fermat's Last Theorem.