Boris Feigin
| Boris Feigin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Boris Lvovich Feigin November 20, 1953 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Independent University of Moscow Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics National Research University – Higher School of Economics |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Israel Gelfand, Dmitry Fuchs |
| Doctoral students | Edward Frenkel |
Boris Lvovich Feigin (Russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Фе́йгин) (born November 20, 1953) is a Russian mathematician. His research has spanned representation theory, mathematical physics, algebraic geometry, Lie groups and Lie algebras, conformal field theory, homological and homotopical algebra.
In 1969 Feigin graduated from the Moscow Mathematical School No. 2 (Andrei Zelevinsky was among his classmates). From 1969 until 1974 he was a student in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University (MSU) under joint supervision of Dmitry Fuchs and Israel Gelfand. His diploma thesis was dedicated to characteristic classes of flags of foliations. Feigin was not accepted to the graduate school of MSU due to increasingly anti-semitic policies at that institution at that time. After working as a computer programmer in industry for some time, he was accepted in 1976 to the graduate school of Yaroslavl State University and defended his thesis "Cohomology of current Lie algebras on smooth manifolds" in 1981 at Steklov Institute in Leningrad. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto in 1990. He obtained his habilitation in 1995.
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