Pyotr Novikov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPyotr Novikov
Russian mathematician
Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1901
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 09-Jan-1975
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Pyotr Novikov
- Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: ???? ?????´???? ??´?????; 15 August 1901, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 January 1975, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet mathematician. Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and Burnside's problem.
- For proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957.In 1953 he became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1960 he was elected a full member. He was married to the mathematician Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976).
- The mathematician Sergei Novikov is his son.
- Sergei Adian and Albert Muchnik were among his students.
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