Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov
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Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Петр Сергеевич Новиков) (August 15, 1901 – January 9, 1975) was a Russian mathematician who was born in Moscow, Russia and died in Moscow, Russia.
He is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and the Burnside problem.
The mathematician Sergei Petrovich Novikov is his son. Sergei Adian was one of his students.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project