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Sergei Novikov

1938 - 2024

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Sergei Petrovich Novikov (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Но́виков [sʲɪrˈɡʲej pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈnovʲɪkəf]; 20 March 1938 – 6 June 2024) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. He became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Novikov is the 312th most popular mathematician (up from 336th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from Russia (up from 780th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sergei Novikov ranks 312 out of 1,004. Before him are John Horton Conway, Stephen Smale, Marino Ghetaldi, John Wilkins, Enrico Bombieri, and Isaac Beeckman. After him are Farkas Bolyai, Abraham Wald, Grigory Margulis, Guo Shoujing, Alain Connes, and Abu Zayd al-Balkhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Sergei Novikov ranks 133. Before him are Fred Stolle, Eddie Cochran, Ted Turner, Nayef Hawatmeh, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, and Marien Ngouabi. After him are Cabu, John Connelly, Paul Andreu, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Robert Smithson, and Gerry Byrne. Among people deceased in 2024, Sergei Novikov ranks 128. Before him are Paul Di'Anno, Shannen Doherty, William Russell, Neale Fraser, James Sikking, and Leif Segerstam. After him are Norman Jewison, Bernd Hölzenbein, William Labov, Antonio Skármeta, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, and Gediminas Kirkilas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Novikov ranks 598 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Taihō Kōki (1940), Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), and Werner Ostendorff (1903). After him are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Yuri Lotman (1922), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), and Mikhail Nesterov (1862).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Sergei Novikov ranks 16. Before him are Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), and Yakov Sinai (1935). After him are Grigory Margulis (1946), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Sobolev (1908), and Ivan Vinogradov (1891).

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