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Pyotr Novikov

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Gender Male
Death49 years ago
Date of birth August 28,1901
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Moscow
Russia
Date of died January 9,1975
DiedMoscow
Russia
Children Sergei Novikov
Academic advisor Nikolai Luzin
Notable students Sergei Adian
Sergey Yablonsky
Albert Muchnik
Current partner Lyudmila Keldysh
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Pyotr Novikov Life story


Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov 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.

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