| Victor Kolyvagin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University, CUNY |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuri Manin |
| Doctoral students | Heuisu Ryu Alexandru Tupan |
Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin (Russian: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Колыва́гин) is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Iwasawa's conjecture for cyclotomic fields.[1] His work also influenced Andrew Wiles's work on Fermat's Theorem.[2][3]
Kolyvagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 from Moscow State University,[4] where his advisor was Yuri I. Manin. He then worked at Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow[2] until 1994. In 1990 he received the Chebyshev Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[4]
Since 1994 he has been a professor of mathematics and was the first person to hold the Mina Rees Chair in mathematics at the Graduate Center Faculty at The City University of New York.[5][4]