Andrei Suslin Explained

Andrei Suslin
Birth Date:1950 12, df=y
Birth Place:Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality:Russian
Fields:Mathematics
Alma Mater:Leningrad University
Doctoral Advisor:Mark Bashmakov
Doctoral Students:Ivan A. Panin
Known For:Algebraic K-theory
Awards:Petersburg Mathematical Society Prize (1977),
Cole Prize (2000)

Andrei Suslin (Russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Су́слин, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He was a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.[1]

Biography

He was born on 27 December 1950 in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a youth, he was an "all Leningrad" gymnast.[2] He received his PhD from Leningrad University in 1974; his thesis was titled Projective modules over polynomial rings.[3]

In 1976 he and Daniel Quillen independently proved Serre's conjecture about the triviality of algebraic vector bundles on affine space.

In 1982 he and Alexander Merkurjev proved the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem on the norm residue homomorphism in Milnor K2-theory, with applications to the Brauer group.

Suslin was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1978 and 1994, and he gave a plenary invited address at the Congress in 1986. He was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 2000 by the American Mathematical Society for his work on motivic cohomology.[4]

In 2010 special issues of Journal of K-theory[5] and of Documenta Mathematica[6] have been published in honour of his 60th birthday.

Death

He died in July 2018.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.math.northwestern.edu/people/facultyProfiles/andrei.suslin.html Andrei Suslin, faculty profile
  2. Friedlander . Eric M. . About the cover: Andrei Suslin, 1950–2018 . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . 24 September 2019 . 57 . 1 . 107–109 . 10.1090/bull/1682 . free .
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  4. 2000 Cole Prize . Notices of the American Mathematical Society . April 2000 . 47 . 4 . 481–482 .
  5. Bak . Anthony . Rosenberg . Jonathan . Weibel . Charles . Foreword to the Special Issues in honor of Andrei Suslin on his 60th birthday . Journal of K-theory . 10 June 2010 . 5 . 3 . 403–405 . 10.1017/is010006004jkt124 . free .
  6. Book: Extra volume of Documenta Mathematica (2010) in honour of A. Suslin. . E. Friedlander . . U. Rehmann.
  7. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. In memoriam: Andrei Suslin. Eric M.. Friedlander. Alexander. Merkurjev. 832–841. June–July 2020. 67. 6.