Alexander Jurjewitsch Olschanski
Alexander Jurjewitsch Olschanski ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Ольшанский , English transcription Alexander Olshanskii or Ol'shanskii; born January 19, 1946 in Saratow ) is a Russian mathematician.
Olschanski studied mathematics from 1963 at Lomonossow University with a diploma in 1968. He received his doctorate there in 1971 under Alfred Lwowitsch Schmelkin (Some questions from the theory of group varieties, Russian) and habilitated in 1979 (Russian doctorate) with the dissertation investigation of locally finite varieties of groups (Russian). From 1970 he taught at Lomonosov University with a full professorship since 1985. From 1999 he was Centennial Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University .
He deals with geometrical and combinatorial group theory. In 1979 he succeeded in solving the von Neumann problem via indirect (amenable) groups.
In 1970 he received the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize and in 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw (On a geometric method in combinatorial group theory). In 2000 he received the Malcev Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Goulnara Arzhantseva is one of his doctoral students .
Fonts
- Geometry of defining relations in groups, Kluwer 1991
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Jurjewitsch Olschanski in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olschanski, Alexander Jurjewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ольшанский, Александр Юрьевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov |