Alexei Bronislavowitsch Sossinsky
Alexei Bronislawowitsch Sossinski ( Russian Алексей Брониславович Сосинский ; English transcription Alexei Sossinsky; born October 7, 1937 in Paris ) is a Russian mathematician who is particularly concerned with knot theory.
Sossinski is the son of Russian emigrants and first grew up in Paris. His mother was the daughter of Viktor Michailowitsch Tschernow , the President of the Constituent Assembly, who had to leave Russia when the Bolsheviks came to power. The daughter followed in 1923. His father was an officer in the White Army, the parents met in Paris in exile. In 1948 the family moved to New York City , where he went to the French high school (Lycée Français). Sossinski then began to study mathematics at New York University , among others with Jean Van Heijenoort . In 1957 he made his bachelor's degree and then moved to the Lomonossow University (Mech-Math Faculty) in Moscow , in his own words because of its good mathematical reputation, its affinity for Russian culture and illusions about the political development in the Soviet Union, which he then cherished. In 1961 he made his diploma there and then worked with Lyudmila Keldysch on his habilitation (Russian doctorate), which took place in 1966 with MF Bokshtein and RL Frum-Ketkov, with a thesis on knot theory (multi-dimensional topological knots). In it he proved the decomposition of a node in any dimension into a finite number of prime factors . Then he was assistant professor at the chair for geometry and topology of Mech-Math under Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrow . In 1974 he had to leave the university when the political pressure on the faculty increased, and was then on the mediation of Andrei Kolmogorov for 13 years until 1987 one of the editors of the popular science magazine Kwant . He also taught at the underground Jewish university organized by Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya , which existed until 1983. He also worked as a translator of Russian poetry and mathematics books, among others. From 1987 to 1994 he was a senior scientist at the Institute for Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM) in Moscow. In the early 1990s he was one of the co-founders and professor at the Independent University of Moscow (IUM), which was founded by leading mathematicians in Russia because it was felt that the once highly regarded Mech-Math faculty could no longer be reformed. At the same time, he headed the Franco-Russian Poncelet mathematics laboratory. Since 1995 he was also at the Laboratory of Mathematical Methods at the Institute for Problems of Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was visiting professor at various French universities and was involved in the MASS program at Penn State University (Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters) and the Math in Moscow (MIM) program for US students in Moscow, which was carried out in conjunction with the MCCME (Center for Continuous Mathematical Education) and the IUM.
Sossinski dealt with low-dimensional topology and knot theory, about which he wrote a popular science book translated into several languages. In addition, he deals with algorithms and undecidability issues in algebra.
Fonts
- with Victor Prasolov: Knots, links, braids and 3-manifolds, American Mathematical Society 1997
- with V. Prasolov: Nodes and Low-Dimensional Topology, IUM Publications, Moscow 1993 (Russian)
- How to Write a Mathematical Publication in English, IUM Publications, 1993, 3rd edition Moscow 1998 (Russian)
- Mathematik der knots, Rowohlt Taschenbuch 2000 (first published in French: Nœuds. Genèse d'une théorie mathématique , Editions du Seuil, Paris 1999, English edition Knots-mathematics with a twist , Harvard University Press 2002)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sossinsky, Tabachnikov, Svetlana Katok (editor) Mass Selecta- teaching and learning advanced mathematics , AMS 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sossinski, Alexei Bronislavowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сосинский, Алексей Брониславович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |