Andrei Suslin is a Russia

Russia

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n mathematician

Mathematician

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 who has made major contributions to the field of algebra

Algebra

Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures...

, especially algebraic K-theory

Algebraic K-theory

In mathematics, algebraic K-theory is an important part of homological algebra concerned with defining and applying a sequenceof functors from rings to abelian groups, for all integers n....

 and its connections with algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which combines techniques of abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with the language and the problems of geometry. It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex...

. He is currently a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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He was born on December 27, 1950, in St. Petersburg, Russia

Russia

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. He received his PhD from Leningrad University in 1974; his thesis was titled Projective modules over polynomial rings.

In 1976 he and Daniel Quillen independently proved Serre's conjecture about the triviality of algebraic vector bundle

Vector bundle

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s on affine space

Affine space

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Together with Alexander Merkurjev

Alexander Merkurjev

Alexander Merkurjev is a Russian-born American mathematician, who has made major contributions to the field of algebra. Currently Merkurjev is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Awards and distinctions:...

, he proved the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem concerning the Brauer group

Brauer group

In mathematics, the Brauer group of a field K is an abelian group whose elements are Morita equivalence classes of central simple algebras of finite rank over K and addition is induced by the tensor product of algebras. It arose out of attempts to classify division algebras over a field and is...

 in 1982.

Suslin was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians

International Congress of Mathematicians

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 in 1978 and 1994, and he gave a plenary invited address at the Congress in 1986. He was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize

Cole Prize

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 in Algebra in 2000 by the American Mathematical Society

American Mathematical Society

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 for his work on motivic cohomology

Motivic cohomology

Motivic cohomology is a cohomological theory in mathematics, the existence of which was first conjectured by Alexander Grothendieck during the 1960s. At that time, it was conceived as a theory constructed on the basis of the so-called standard conjectures on algebraic cycles, in algebraic geometry...

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In 2010 special issues of "Journal of K-theory"
and of Documenta Mathematica was published in honor of Suslin's sixtieth birthday.

External links

• Anfrei Suslin, faculty profile, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....