Pyotr Novikov

P. S. Novikov.

Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Сергеевич Новиков; 15 August 1901, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 January 1975, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet mathematician.

Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and Burnside's problem. For proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957.^[1]

In 1953 he became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1960 he was elected a full member.

He was married to the mathematician Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976). The mathematician Sergei Novikov is his son. Sergei Adian and Albert Muchnik were among his students.

References

1. ^ S. I. Adian, Mathematical logic, the theory of algorithms and the theory of sets, AMS Bookstore, 1977, ISBN 0821830333, p. 26.

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pyotr Novikov", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Novikov.html .
• Pyotr Novikov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Novikov, Pyotr
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	15 August 1901
Place of birth
Date of death	9 January 1975
Place of death