Biography:Alexei Kostrikin

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Short description: Russian mathematician (1929–2000)

Alexei Ivanovich Kostrikin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Кострикин) (12 February 1929 – 22 September 2000) was a Russia mathematician, specializing in algebra and algebraic geometry.

Life

Kostrikin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University in 1952. In 1960, he earned a Doctor of Sciences degree under Igor Shafarevich at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics with a thesis on the Burnside problem.[1] He became a faculty member at Moscow State University in 1963 and became a professor at the same university in 1976. In 1998, he became Honoured Professor of Moscow State University.[citation needed]

Prizes

Kostrikin was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1968 for his research on finite groups and Lie algebras and was elected the corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1976.[citation needed]

Books

Alexei Kostrikin published many scientific articles, books and textbooks, including a university textbook about algebra Introduction to algebra, translated into English and other languages.

Selected publications

Further reading

  • V. A. Artamonov, Yu. A .Bahturin, I. A. Chubarov, et al., Dedication: Alexei Ivanovich Kostrikin, Comm. Algebra 29 (9) (2001), ix–xiv.
  • Preface: On the 70th birthday of Alexei Ivanovich Kostrikin, J. Math. Sci. (New York) 93 (6) (1999), 801–808.
  • E. B. Vinberg, E. S. Golod, E. I. Zelmanov, et al., Aleksei Ivanovich Kostrikin [1929–2000] (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 56 3(339) (2001), 143–145.
  • E. B. Vinberg, E. S. Golod, E. I. Zelmanov, et al., Aleksei Ivanovich Kostrikin [1929–2000], Russian Math. Surveys 56 (3) (2001), 559–561.

References

  1. Alexei Kostrikin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Newman, M. F.; Wall, G. E. (1993). "Book Review: Around Burnside by A. I. Kostrikin and The restricted Burnside problem by Michael Vaughan-Lee". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 28 (1): 157–162. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00341-0. ISSN 0273-0979. 
  3. Tobin, Seán (1993). "Review of Around Burnside by A. I. Kostrikin, translated from the Russian by James Wiegold". IMS Bulletin 31: 68–74. https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/ims/bull31/bull31_69-74.pdf. 
  4. Howie, J. M. (1983). "Review of Introduction to algebra by A. I. Kostrikin, translated by N. Koblitz". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 26 (3): 401. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/B348AB67652C240182B5776AA42B010B/S0013091500004557a.pdf/. 

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