Vladimir Platonov

Vladimir Platonov

Vladimir Petrovich Platonov( _be. Уладзімір Пятровіч Платонаў, Uladzimir Piatrovic Platonau; _ru. Влади́мир Петро́вич Плато́нов, Vladimir Platonov)(born December 1, 1939) is a Belarusian mathematician.

Academic career

Platonov received his doctorate from the Belarus State University in 1967. Since 1972 he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and its President (1987-1993). [cite web|url=http://www.ac.by/members/academicians/platonov.html|title=Academician Vladimir P. Platonov|publisher=Belarusian Academy of Sciences] Academician of the Russian /USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987. He was the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus from 1977 to 1992. His interests are algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory. He solvedthe Strong approximation problem, developed the reduced K-theory and solved the Tannaka-Artin problem. He solved also the Kneser-Tits and Grothendieck problems. Lenin Prize (1978), Humboldt Prize (1993).

A celebrated figure in his native Belarus, he is also a member of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was from 1993 to 2001 a Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

He is the author, with Andrei Rapinchuk, of "Algebraic Groups and Number Theory" (Academic Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0125581806).

Arrest and trial

On November 9, 1999, he was arrested by Waterloo police and charged with attempted murder for an attack on his wife Valentina Platonova in their home. They were later divorced. On January 17, 2001, he pled guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault and was given by judge Robert Reilly a conditional sentence of house arrest, forcing him to remain in his house between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m., until January 16, 2003. He later obtained permission to extend his curfew, to facilitate travel to Toronto for business purposes. On August 31, 2001, he took early retirement from the University of Waterloo. [cite web|url=http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=2320|title=Statement on Prof. Vladimir Platonov|publisher=University of Waterloo Communications & Public Affairs]

References

External links

* [http://www.ac.by/members/academicians/platonov.html Academician Vladimir P. Platonov] , Belarusian Academy of Sciences


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