Mikhail Postnikov

Mikhail Postnikov
Born	27 October 1927(1927-10-27) Shatura, Soviet Union
Died	27 May 2004(2004-05-27) (aged 76) Moscow, Russia
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Lev Pontryagin
Doctoral students	Sergei Novikov Andrei Pajitnov Yuli Rudyak Nikolai Saveliev Andras Szucs
Known for	Postnikov system Postnikov square

Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович По́стников) (27 October 1927 – 27 May 2004) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.

He was born in Shatura, near Moscow. He received his Ph.D. from the Moscow State University under the direction of Lev Pontryagin. He died in Moscow.

References

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Postnikov.html .
• Postnikov, M. M. (1993), "Pages of a mathematical autobiography (1942--1953)", in Zdravkovska, Smilka; Duren, Peter L., Golden years of Moscow mathematics, Hist. Math., 6, Providence, R.I.: Amer. Math. Soc., pp. 155–178, ISBN 978-0-8218-9003-5, MR1246563, http://books.google.com/books?id=JKvY-9K0-bEC&pg=155 
• Rudyak, Yuli (2009), "M. M. Postnikov: his life, work and legacy", Algebraic topology---old and new, Banach Center Publ., 85, Polish Acad. Sci. Inst. Math., Warsaw, pp. 15–29, doi:10.4064/bc85-0-1, MR2503515 

External links

• Mikhail Postnikov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Postnikov, Mikhail
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Date of birth	27 October 1927
Place of birth	Shatura, Soviet Union
Date of death	27 May 2004
Place of death	Moscow, Russia