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Igor Krichever

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Igor Krichever
Krichever in 2010
Born
Igor Moiseevich Krichever

(1950-10-08)8 October 1950
Died1 December 2022(2022-12-01) (aged 72)
NationalityRussian
EducationMSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Occupation(s)Professor
Mathematician

Igor Moiseevich Krichever (Russian: Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер; 8 October 1950 – 1 December 2022) was a Russian academic and mathematician.[1]

Biography

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Krichever was born in Kuybyshev to aviation engineer Moisey Solomonovich Krichever[2] and Maria Leyzerovna Arlievskaya.[3] He received a silver medal at the 1967 International Mathematical Olympiad.[4] He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1972.

From 1975 to 1988, Krichever was a researcher at the Energy Institute G. M. Krzhizhanovsky [ru]. He was then a senior researcher at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences [ru]. In 1990, he became a senior researcher for the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 1996, he was a professor at the Independent University of Moscow. In 1997, he became a professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he served as dean of the mathematics department from 2008 to 2011.[5] In 2013, he became a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. That same year, he became deputy director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences [ru].

In 2011, Krichever was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class.

Igor Krichever died in New York City on 1 December 2022, at the age of 72.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Higher School of Economics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Награда Моисея Кричевера". poisk.re (in Russian).
  3. ^ "Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер (к семидесятилетию со дня рождения)". Math-Net.ru (in Russian).
  4. ^ "Igor Krichever". International Mathematical Olympiad. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Conference in honor of 60th Birthday of Igor Krichever Columbia University, May 4-7, 2011". C. J. Mozzochi.
  6. ^ "Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер". Higher School of Economics (in Russian). 2 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
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