Pyotr Novikov
Soviet mathematician (1901–1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Серге́евич Но́виков; 28 August 1901, Moscow – 9 January 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician.
Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and his progress in the Burnside problem. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957 for proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups.[1]
In 1953, he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1960, he was elected a full member.
He was married to mathematician Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976) and raised mathematician Sergei Novikov (born 1938) as his son. Sergei Adian and Albert Muchnik were among his students.