Sergei Novikov
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Sergei Novikov is a Russian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in topology, particularly in the fields of cobordism theory and the topology of manifolds, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergei Novikov canonical | 6 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Fields Medalist
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ topologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fields Medal
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Lenin Prize ⓘ Lobachevsky Prize ⓘ State Prize of the Russian Federation ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
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Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-03-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Moscow State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Moscow State University
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Steklov Institute of Mathematics ⓘ University of Maryland ⓘ
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University of Maryland, College Park
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| familyName | Novikov ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algebraic topology
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cobordism theory ⓘ geometric topology ⓘ mathematical physics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ topology ⓘ topology of manifolds ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Sergei ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Andrei Kolmogorov
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Andrey Kolmogorov
Lev Pontryagin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Novikov conjecture in topology
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Novikov’s higher signature conjecture ⓘ contributions to the theory of foliations ⓘ pioneering work in cobordism theory ⓘ work in integrable systems ⓘ work on Morse theory and its applications ⓘ work on the topology of manifolds ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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Academy of Sciences of the USSR
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
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National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Royal Society ⓘ Russian Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Sergei Novikov self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Vladimir Rokhlin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Novikov’s proof of the topological invariance of rational Pontryagin classes
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work on complex cobordism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head of the Department of Geometry and Topology at Moscow State University
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professor of mathematics ⓘ |
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