Vladimir Platonov

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Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (Belarusian: Уладзімір Пятровіч Платонаў, Uladzimir Piatrovic Platonau; Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Плато́нов, Vladimir Platonov) (born December 1, 1939) is a Belarusian mathematician.

[edit] Academic career

Platonov received his doctorate from the Belarus State University in 1967. Since 1972 he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and its President (1987-1993).Academician of the Russian /USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987. He was the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus from 1977 to 1992. His interests are algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory. He solved the Strong approximation problem, developed the reduced K-theory and solved the Tannaka-Artin problem. He solved also the Kneser-Tits and Grothendieck problems. Lenin Prize (1978), Humboldt Prize (1993).

A celebrated figure in his native Belarus, he is also a member of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was from 1993 to 2001 a Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

He is the author, with Andrei Rapinchuk, of Algebraic Groups and Number Theory (Academic Press, 1993).