Nikolai Valeryevich Durov

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Nikolai Valeryevich Durov ( Russian: Никола́й Вале́рьевич Ду́ров , English transcription Nikolai Valeryevich Durov; born November 21, 1980 in Leningrad ) is a Russian mathematician and programmer.

He is the brother of Pavel Valeryevich Durov and was involved in the development and founding of Vk.com and Telegram Messenger . He was one of the senior programmers at Vk.com until 2013 and he was significantly involved in the development of Telegram (MTProto encryption system, Telegram Open Network TON). His draft for TON describes this as the 5th generation blockchain project and also uses advanced methods from mathematical logic (type theory).

Durow won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He also won three silver and one gold medal at the International Computer Science Olympiads (1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He studied at the State University of Saint Petersburg , where he received his doctorate in mathematics under Sergei Vostokow in 2005 (Method of computation of the Galois group of a polynomial with rational coefficients). He then did his second doctorate in 2007 with Gerd Faltings at the University of Bonn (New approach to Arakelov geometry). He conducts research at the Steklow Institute in Saint Petersburg.

As a student, he was part of a team that set up the ACM Int. Collegiate Programming Contest won.

He developed a new algebraic approach to Arakelow geometry (originally by Suren Jurjewitsch Arakelow ) as a generalization of the theory of classical rings and schemes , in which he developed not only Arakelow geometry, but also versions of tropical geometry and the geometry above the body with an element .

In his dissertation in Saint Petersburg he developed a new method for the algorithmic determination of the Galois group of equations.

He also deals with Lie algebras and introduced a generalization of operads , which he called a vectoroid.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telegram's TON technology description posted online , Bitnews Today, January 15, 2018. Reference to Nikolai Durov's whitepaper.
  2. ↑ Nikolai Valerjewitsch Durow in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ The 2001 World Champions The St. Petersburg State University - twice in a row!
  4. ^ Durow, A new approach to Arakelov geometry , Arxiv 2007
  5. ^ Durov, Computation of the Galois group of a polynomial with rational coefficients, 2 parts, J. Math. Sci. (NY) Vol. 134, 2006, pp. 2511-2548, Vol. 136, 2006, pp. 3880-3907
  6. ↑ N. Durov, S. Meljanac, A. Samsarov, Z. Škoda, A universal formula for representing Lie algebra generators as formal power series with coefficients in the Weyl algebra, Journal of Algebra, Volume 309, 2007, pp. 318-359 , Online
  7. ↑ Durov, Classifying Vectoids and generalizations of Operads, Conference Contemporary Mathematics, St. Petersburg 2009, Arxiv 2011
personal data
SURNAME Durov, Nikolai Valeryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ду́ров, Никола́й Вале́рьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician and programmer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad