Alexei Skorobogatov | |
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Born |
Moscow, USSR |
4 November 1961
Nationality | Russian, British |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Alma mater | MSU |
Doctoral advisor | Yuri Manin |
Doctoral students |
Steven Cunnane Richard Thursby Evis Ieronymou |
Known for | Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory |
Notable awards | Whitehead Prize (2001) |
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.
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.