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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). |
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