Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov () is a British-Russian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and Professor in Pure Mathematics at

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

specialising in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

. His work has focused on

rational point In number theory and algebraic geometry, a rational point of an algebraic variety is a point whose coordinates belong to a given field. If the field is not mentioned, the field of rational numbers is generally understood. If the field is the fiel ...

s, the Hasse principle, the Manin obstruction,

exponential sum In mathematics, an exponential sum may be a finite Fourier series (i.e. a trigonometric polynomial), or other finite sum formed using the exponential function, usually expressed by means of the function :e(x) = \exp(2\pi ix).\, Therefore, a typi ...

s, and

error-correcting code In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The centra ...

Education

He completed his dissertation under the supervision of

Yuri Manin Yuri Ivanovich Manin (; 16 February 1937 – 7 January 2023) was a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics. Life an ...

, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.

Awards

In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...

. He was elected as a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to the Diophantine geometry of surfaces and higher dimensional varieties".

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References

External links

Alexei Skorobogatov's professional webpageAlexei Skorobogatov's personal webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Skorobogatov, Alexei 1961 births Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Academics of Imperial College London Whitehead Prize winners Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Moscow State University alumni