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Efim Zelmanov
On September 7, 1955, Efim Zelmanov, a mathematician, winner of the Field Prize was born.
Personal business
Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (65 years old) was born in Khabarovsk. In 1972 he entered the mechanical and mathematics faculty of Novosibirsk State University. After graduating from the university in 1977, under the leadership of Anatoly Shirshov and Leonid Bokuta, a candidate dissertation, which made a significant contribution to the theory of Yordan algebra, expanding the results obtained for the final Yordan algebra, to the class of endless Yordan algebra.
He defended his thesis in 1980 and began to work as the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (named after Soan). In 1983, at the International Congress of Mathematics in Warsaw, he read a report based on the results of his candidate dissertation. In 1985 he defended his doctoral dissertation and became a senior researcher at Soan, since 1986 - a leading researcher.
Since 1987 he has been living in the USA. He worked at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, then to the University of Chicago, the University of Yale. He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002. At the moment, Efim Zelmanov is a professor at the University of California at San Diego and Korean Institute of Promising Research.
In 2016, Zelmanov received an honorary degree of Doctor of Sciences from the British University of Lincoln.
What is famous
In 1994, Efim Zelmanov received the most prestigious Fields Prize among mathematicians for solving the weakened problem of Bernside, one of the most important issues of group theory. In the wording of the author - the English mathematician William Burnside - it sounded like this: "Will there be of course a generated group in which each element has a final order, necessarily the final one?" In addition to the Field Prize for this work, Efim Zelmanov also received the Medal of College de France in January 1992 and the Canadian Prize Andre Aisenstadt in May 1996.
What you need to know about
Efim ZelmanovEven if Efim Zelmanov had not begun to deal with the theory of groups, he would still be one of the largest algebraists of the 20th century. In addition to a major discovery in the theory of the Yordan algebra in his candidate dissertation, he also owns a solution to one of the important problems in the field of algebrus Lee. It turned out to be very unexpected for colleagues that the large algebraist Zelmanov suddenly began to engage in another area of mathematics. But it was precisely the use of the technique of the Yordan algebrus to solving the problem of Bernside that brought Zelmanov success. “I seemed to have jumped out of another corner, so I admitted that I could do it!” - says Efim Zelmanov.
Direct speech
“I really loved mathematics in all its manifestations, participated in the Olympiads. I liked solving problems. Thus, everything has been decided since those years. I also loved history. Just read. Mathematics liked the fact that if I proved the theorem, it means proved. And it doesn’t matter who thinks. But about the rest of the items, except for physics and chemistry ... After all, one thinks so, and the other is already different ... Everything is somehow unsteady! ”
From an interview with Efim Zelmanov
“Efim Zelmanov, a kindest guy living only by mathematics, in the Soviet years poisoned with incomprehensible perseverance - failed his brilliant candidate dissertation, did not allow him to teach at the university. Here he was a “alien element”, but behind the ocean, the president of the American mathematical society, Professor Jacobson, called his results the “Russian revolution in the Yordan algebrahs”. Efim received the Fields Prize for solving the famous problem of Bernside, and we can be proud that this work was done by him back in Russia. ”
Professor Leonid Bokut, head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
8 facts about Efim Zelmanov
- Efim Zelmanov is considered his hometown to Novosibirsk.
- Bernside's problem was formulated back in 1902.
- Efim Zelman's favorite book - “Three Musketeers” by Alexander Dumas.
- In 1994, at the presentation of the Medal of the Laureate of the Field Prize, it was announced: "Efim Zelmanov, Madison, Wisconsin, Russia." The mathematician then commented on this with the words: “Such Zhirinovsky did not dream!”
- Efim Zelmanov was an invited speaker at three international congresses of mathematicians: in Warsaw (1983), in Kyoto (1990) and in Zurich (1994).
- At the time of the election to the US National Academy of Sciences, Zelmanov became the youngest academician in its composition.
- Efim Zelmanov is part of the editorial offices of more than ten large scientific journals, including Algebra and Logic, The Annals of Mathematics, The Journal of Algebra and the Journal of the American Mathematic Society.
- In the professor’s position of the University of California at San Diego, which is now occupied by Efim Zelmanov, the other two laureates of the Fields of Yau Shinnan and Michael Friedman previously worked.
Materials about Efim Zelmanov
Article about Efim Zelmanov on Russian Wikipedia
Efim Zelmanov on the website "Mathematical Genealogy"
Efima Zelmanovpage on the site of the University of California at San Diego
Interview Efima Zelmanov on the website "NSU in Persons"
Efim Zelmanov on the site mat-net.ru