Andrei Suslin (, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a 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 ...

who contributed to

algebraic K-theory Algebraic ''K''-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called ''K''-groups. These are groups in the sens ...

and its connections with

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 ...

. He was a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. He was born on 27 December 1950 in St. Petersburg,

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. As a youth, he was an "all Leningrad" gymnast. He received his PhD from

Leningrad University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public university, public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the uni ...

in 1974; his thesis was titled ''Projective modules over polynomial rings''. In 1976 he and Daniel Quillen independently proved Serre's conjecture about the triviality of algebraic

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s on

affine space In mathematics, an affine space is a geometric structure that generalizes some of the properties of Euclidean spaces in such a way that these are independent of the concepts of distance and measure of angles, keeping only the properties relat ...

. In 1982 he and Alexander Merkurjev proved the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem on the norm residue homomorphism in Milnor K2-theory, with applications to the

Brauer group In mathematics, the Brauer group of a field ''K'' is an abelian group whose elements are Morita equivalence classes of central simple algebras over ''K'', with addition given by the tensor product of algebras. It was defined by the algebraist ...

. Suslin was an

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in 1978 and 1994, and he gave a plenary invited address at the Congress in 1986. He was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 2000 by the

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for his work on motivic cohomology. In 2010 special issues of ''Journal of K-theory'' and of ''Documenta Mathematica'' have been published in honour of his 60th birthday. He died in July 2018.

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External links

Anfrei Suslin, faculty profile
Department of Mathematics,

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