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Alexei Skorobogatov

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Alexei Skorobogatov
Born (1961-11-04) 4 November 1961 (age 62)
NationalityRussian, British
Alma materMSU
Known forAlgebraic Geometry, Number Theory
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsImperial College London
Doctoral advisorYuri Manin
Doctoral studentsSteven Cunnane
Richard Thursby
Evis Ieronymou

Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Скоробога́тов) - a British-Russian mathematician, a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London specialising in algebraic geometry.

He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.[1]

He has published papers: on rational points, -the Hasse principle -the Manin obstruction, -exponential sums, -combinatorics -error-correcting codes.

In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.[2]

Books

  • Alexei Skorobogatov (2001). Torsors and Rational Points. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80237-6.
  • Alexei Skorobogatov; Miles Reid (2004). Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54518-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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