Victor Kolyvagin

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Victor Kolyvagin (Russian: Колывагин Виктор Александрович) 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.

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 has been a professor of mathematics and holds the Mina Rees Chair in mathematics at the Graduate Center Faculty at The City University of New York.

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• Victor Kolyvagin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Kolyvagin's Biography