Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian mathematician
Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1921
Place of Birth: Kolyvan, Russia
Date of Death: 28-Feb-1981
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov
- Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov (?????´??? ???????´????? ?????´?, 8 August 1921, Kolyvan, Novosibirsk Oblast – 28 February 1981, Novosibirsk) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his research on free Lie algebras.
- He proved the Shirshov-Witt theorem, which states that any Lie subalgebra of a free Lie algebra is itself a free Lie algebra.In 1939 he graduated from secondary school in the city of Aleysk of the Altai Territory and in the same year entered Tomsk University.
- After the first year, he transferred to the correspondence ("distance education" or "learning by mail") department and worked as a mathematics teacher in Aleysk.
- One of the streets of Aleisk is named after Anatoly Shirshov. In 1942 A.
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- Shirshov volunteered for the front as part of 6th Rifle Corps of Siberian Volunteers.
- He fought on the West, Kalininsky, and 2nd Belorussian Fronts.
- He was awarded the medal of the Front Order on the 2nd Belorussian Front, No.
- 0813 dated 07/16/1945, "For Military Merit". Beginning in 1946 A.
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- Shirshov worked at the Stanichno-Luhansk secondary school in the Luhansk Oblast and studied in the correspondence department of Voroshilovgrad Pedagogical Institute, graduating there in 1949. In 1950 A.
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- Shirshov was admitted to graduate school in the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University.
- There in 1953 he received his Ph.D.
- (Russian Candidate degree).
- His thesis Some problems in the theory of nonassociative rings and algebras was supervised by A.
- G.
- Kurosh.
- In 1953 Shirshov introduced the concept of "regular words", now called Lyndon words after Roger Lyndon, who published the idea in 1954.
- In 1958 A.
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- Shirshov defended his higher doctoral dissertation On some classes of rings that are nearly associative and received his Russian Doctorate of Sciences degree.From 1960 until his death A.
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- Shirshov worked at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, while being a professor at Novosibirsk State University.
- From 1960 to 1974 he was deputy director of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics.
- He was also the head of the department of algebra from 1960 until his death.He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1964.
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