Alexei Skorobogatov

Summary

Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Скоробога́тов) is a British-Russian mathematician and Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London specialising in algebraic geometry. His work has focused on rational points, the Hasse principle, the Manin obstruction, exponential sums, and error-correcting codes.

Alexei Skorobogatov
Born (1961-11-04) 4 November 1961 (age 62)
NationalityRussian, British
Alma materMoscow State University
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsImperial College London
Doctoral advisorYuri Manin

Education edit

He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.[1]

Awards edit

In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.[2]

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to the Diophantine geometry of surfaces and higher dimensional varieties".[3]

Books edit

  • Alexei Skorobogatov (2001). Torsors and Rational Points. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80237-6.
  • Alexei Skorobogatov; Miles Reid (2004). Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54518-1.

References edit

  1. ^ Alexei Skorobogatov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Citation for Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov". Archived from the original on 2005-10-26. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  3. ^ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-11-03

External links edit

  • Alexei Skorobogatov's professional webpage
  • Alexei Skorobogatov's personal webpage