Alexander Alexandrovich Kirillov Jr. (russian: Александр Александрович Кириллов) is a Russian-born

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mathematician, working in the area of representation theory and

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s. He is a son of Russian mathematician

Alexandre Kirillov Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, known for his works in the fields of representation theory, topological groups a ...

Biography

Kirillov received his master's degree from Moscow State University in 1989 and Ph.D from

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in 1995. He is currently a professor at

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. Kirillov is a teacher of the project School Nova, trying to establish traditions of the Russian Mathematical Schools on American soil.

Publications

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External links

Kirillov's homepage

Kirillov's page on the SchoolPlus project

Alexander Kirillov on the Mathematical Genealogy ProjectKirillov's page on the SchoolNova project
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