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  Sergei Novikov
Novikov was born March 20, 1938 in Gorki, into a family of outstanding mathematicians.
His father, Petr Sergeevich Novikov (1901-1975), was an academician, an outstanding expert in mathematical logic, algebra, set theory, and function theory; his mother, Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh (1904-1976), was a professor, a well-known expert in geometric topology and set theory.
Novikov received his mathematical education in the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow University (1955-1960), and he has worked there since 1964 in the Department of Differential Geometry; since 1983 he has been head of the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of Moscow University (see S.P.Novikov Seminar).
mech.math.msu.su /~million/NOVIKOV.HTM   (1507 words)

  
  Sergei Petrovich Novikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Novikov also carried out important research in geometric topology, being one of the pioneers with William Browder, Dennis Sullivan and Terry Wall of the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
In 1982 Novikov was also appointed the Head of the Chair in Higher Geometry and Topology at the Moscow State University.
In 2005 Novikov was awarded the Wolf Prize for his contributions to algebraic topology, differential topology and to mathematical physics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sergei_Petrovich_Novikov   (570 words)

  
 Serguei Novikov
Professor Novikov was born March 20, 1938 in Gorki, into a family of outstanding mathematicians.
Novikov received his mathematical education in the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow University (1955-1960), and he has worked there since 1964 in the Department of Differential Geometry; since 1983 he has been head of the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of Moscow University.
During the period 1985-1996 Novikov served as President of the Moscow Mathematical Society, and during 1986-1990 he was also a Vice-President of the International Association in Mathematical Physics.
www.ipst.umd.edu /Faculty/novikov.htm   (923 words)

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