Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov

P.S. Novikov.

Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Сергеевич Новиков) (August 15, 1901 – January 9, 1975) was a Russian mathematician who was born in Moscow, Russia and died in Moscow, Russia.

He is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and the Burnside problem.

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

The mathematician Sergei Petrovich Novikov is his son. Sergei Adian was one of his students.

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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