Igor Krichever
{{Short description|Russian academic and mathematician (1950–2022)}}
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| caption = Krichever in 2010
| birth_name = Igor Moiseevich Krichever
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1950|10|08}}
| birth_place = Kuybyshev, Russian SFSR, USSR
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2022|12|01|1950|10|08}}
| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| nationality = Russian
| other_names =
| occupation = Professor
Mathematician
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| education = MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
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Igor Moiseevich Krichever ({{langx|ru|Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер}}; 8 October 1950 – 1 December 2022) was a Russian academic and mathematician.{{cite web|url=https://www.hse.ru/data/2013/11/18/1277507672/CV%20%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae|work=Higher School of Economics|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132533/https://www.hse.ru/data/2013/11/18/1277507672/CV%20%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80.pdf|archivedate=15 January 2019}}
Biography
Krichever was born in Kuybyshev to aviation engineer Moisey Solomonovich Krichever{{cite web|url=https://poisk.re/awards/1535538845|title=Награда Моисея Кричевера|work=poisk.re|language=Russian}} and Maria Leyzerovna Arlievskaya.{{cite web|url=https://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=rm&paperid=10015&option_lang=rus|title=Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер (к семидесятилетию со дня рождения)|work=Math-Net.ru|language=Russian}} He received a silver medal at the 1967 International Mathematical Olympiad.{{cite web|url=https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=10052|title=Igor Krichever|work=International Mathematical Olympiad|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304054915/https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=10052|archivedate=4 March 2018}} He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1972.
From 1975 to 1988, Krichever was a researcher at the {{ill|Energy Institute G. M. Krzhizhanovsky|ru|Энергетический институт имени Г. М. Кржижановского}}. He was then a senior researcher at the {{ill|Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences|ru|Институт проблем механики имени А. Ю. Ишлинского РАН}}. In 1990, he became a senior researcher for the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 1996, he was a professor at the Independent University of Moscow. In 1997, he became a professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he served as dean of the mathematics department from 2008 to 2011.{{cite web|url=https://mozzochi.org/Krichever/Photos.html|title=Conference in honor of 60th Birthday of Igor Krichever Columbia University, May 4-7, 2011.|work=C. J. Mozzochi}} In 2013, he became a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. That same year, he became deputy director of the {{ill|Institute for Information Transmission Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences|ru|Институт проблем передачи информации имени А. А. Харкевича РАН}}.
In 2011, Krichever was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class.
Igor Krichever died in New York City on 1 December 2022, at the age of 72.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=2 December 2022|title=Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер|trans-title= |url=https://math.hse.ru/news/799880385.html|language=Russian|work=Higher School of Economics|location= |access-date=5 December 2022}}
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External links
- {{cite journal|title=In Memory of Igor Krichever|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|date=April 2024|volume=71|issue=4|pages=483–499|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/202404/rnoti-p483.pdf|doi=10.1090/noti2909|doi-access=free}}
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