Pyotr Novikov
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1901 – 1975
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Who was Pyotr Novikov?
Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov was a Soviet mathematician.
Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and Burnside's problem. For proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957.
In 1953 he became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1960 he was elected a full member.
He was married to the mathematician Lyudmila Keldysh. The mathematician Sergei Novikov is his son. Sergei Adian and Albert Muchnik were among his students.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1901
Moscow - Children
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Died
- Jan 9, 1975
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on July 23, 2013
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