Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin is a Russia

Russia

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n mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler system

Euler system

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s, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

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, and Iwasawa's conjecture

Iwasawa theory

In number theory, Iwasawa theory is the study of objects of arithmetic interest over infinite towers of number fields. It began as a Galois module theory of ideal class groups, initiated by Kenkichi Iwasawa, in the 1950s, as part of the theory of cyclotomic fields. In the early 1970s, Barry Mazur...

 for cyclotomic fields. His work also influenced Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

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's work on Fermat's Theorem

Fermat's theorem

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Kolyvagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 from Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

, where his advisor was Yuri I. Manin

Yuri I. Manin

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. He then worked at Steklov Institute of Mathematics

Steklov Institute of Mathematics

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 in Moscow

Moscow

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 until 1994. In 1990 he received the Chebyshev Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1994 he has been a professor of mathematics and was the first person to hold the Mina Rees Chair in mathematics at the Graduate Center Faculty at The City University of New York

City University of New York

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