Nikolai Durov
Nikolai Durov | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University, University of Bonn |
| Occupation(s) | Programmer, mathematician |
| Website | www |
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (Russian: Никола́й Вале́рьевич Ду́ров; born 1980) is a Russian mathematician and programmer. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov and together with him one of the founders[1] of the social networking site VK.
Early life and education
In 1996, 1997 and 1998 Durov participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a gold medal in each of the three contests he took part in.[2] He had been a member of Saint-Petersburg State University ACM team, which won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2000[3] and 2001.[4]
Career
He received his first PhD from Saint-Petersburg State University in 2005. He continued his mathematical education at the University of Bonn having received another PhD under supervision of Gerd Faltings.[5] Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry.[6] Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup. Currently Durov works as a lead developer of vkontakte.ru team. He also holds the position of a senior research fellow at the laboratory of algebra at the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.[7]