Nikolai Durov
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| Native name | Никола́й Вале́рьевич Ду́ров |
| Born | 21 November 1980 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University, University of Bonn |
| Occupation | Programmer, mathematician |
| Known for | Founding VK in 2006 Founding Telegram Messenger in 2013 |
| Relatives | Pavel Durov (brother) |
| Awards | St. Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician Prize (2006) |
| Website | www |
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (Russian: Никола́й Вале́рьевич Ду́ров; born 21 November 1980) is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, together with whom he founded the social networking site VK[1] and later Telegram.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
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.[3] (where his contestant name was Nikolai Dourov.) In 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 he won one gold and three silver medals in the International Olympiad in Informatics.[4] He was a member of Saint-Petersburg State University ACM team, which won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2000[5] and 2001.[6]
He received his first PhD from Saint-Petersburg State University in 2005. He continued his mathematical education at the University of Bonn and in 2007 obtained another PhD under supervision of Gerd Faltings[7] entitled "A new approach to Arakelov geometry".[8]
Career[edit]
Research[edit]
Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry.[9] 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.
He 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.[10]
Other work[edit]
Durov worked as a lead developer of the VKontakte.ru team until 2013.[11]
Together with his brother Pavel, he founded the instant messenger service Telegram and developed the MTProto protocol for Telegram in 2013.[citation needed]
Durov is believed to be the author of the original TON (Telegram Open Network) whitepaper.[12]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ "Forumvk 2010 Vk.com stars". Archived from the original on 2010-11-22.
- ^ Shu, Catherine. "Meet Telegram, A Secure Messaging App From The Founders Of VK, Russia's Largest Social Network - TechCrunch".
- ^ "International Mathematical Olympiad". www.imo-official.org.
- ^ "Nikolai Dourov". stats.ioinformatics.org.
- ^ "Final report of the ACM programming contest 2000". Archived from the original on 2011-01-02.
- ^ "Final report of the ACM programming contest 2001". Archived from the original on 2011-01-02.
- ^ "HCM: 404". www.hcm.uni-bonn.de.
- ^ A new approach to Arakelov geometry Submitted on 16 Apr 2007) 568 pages.
- ^ Nikolai, Durov (16 April 2007). "New Approach to Arakelov Geometry". arXiv:0704.2030 [math.AG].
- ^ "PDMI - Durov N.V." www.pdmi.ras.ru.
- ^ Anton, Blagoveshchensky (April 30, 2014). "Брат Павла Дурова предсказал новые увольнения из "ВКонтакте"". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
- ^ original TON (Telegram Open Network) whitepaper.
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