Victor Kolyvagin

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Victor Kolyvagin (Russian: Колывагин Виктор Александрович) is an American mathematician. He wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, which Andrew Wiles studied and used in his proof of the statement, "semistable elliptic curves are modular, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Iwasawa's conjecture for cyclotomic fields.

Kolyvagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 from Moscow State University, where his advisor was Yuri I. Manin. He then worked at Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow until 1994. In 1990 he received the Chebyshev Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1994 he is a professor of mathematics and holds the Mina Rees Chair in mathematics at the Graduate Center Faculty at The City University of New York.