Boris Zilber
Boris Zilber is a Russian-born British mathematician who studies mathematical logic ( model theory ).
Zilber received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of Novosibirsk and completed his habilitation in 1986 at the University of Saint Petersburg (Russian doctoral degree). Graduated from Oxford University in 1999 where he is currently Professor of Mathematical Logic.
In 2004, with a theoretical model approach, he made important progress in the still open Schanuel conjecture, which is of great importance in the theory of transcendent numbers. With Ehud Hrushovski he introduced Zariski geometries (Journal of the AMS, vol. 9, 1996, p. 1), generalizations of Zariski topologies . His book about it was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press (Zariski Geometries - Geometry from the Logician's Point of View). He is also known for a conjecture with Gregory Cherlin in model theory, established by him in 1977 (Cherlin-Zilber conjecture). It says that every simple group of finite Morley rank is isomorphic to an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field.
In 2004 he received the Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society (LMS). In 2002 he gave the Tarski Lectures . In 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw ( The Structure of Models of Uncountable Categorial Theories ). For 2015 he was awarded the LMS Pólya Prize .
Fonts
- Uncountably Categorical Theories, American Mathematical Society 1993
- Zariski Geometries - Geometry from the Logicians Point of View, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes No. 360, 2010, Cambridge University Press, Review by Anand Pillay, Bulletin AMS, Volume 50, 2013, pp. 175-180
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| SURNAME | Zilber, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |