Sergej Petrovic Novikov
Mathematician
Gorky, 20 March 1938 – Moscow, 6 June 2024

Foreign member

Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geoscience

 

Membership of SASA
Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; foreign member from 15 December 1988
Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geosciences: foreign member since 28 May 1998

Field of study
Qualitative theory of dynamical systems, theory of cosmological models, spectral theory of linear operators

Education
BSc (1960); PhD thesis candidate (1964); PhD (1965) Moscow State University

Career
L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, head (1971); Department of Geometry and Topology of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, head  (1983); University of Maryland, USA, professor (1996)

Membership of other academies
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, corresponding member (1966); full member (1981); Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1996); National Academy of Sciences, USA (1994)

Awards and recognitions
Honorary doctorates of the University of Athens and the University of Tel Aviv;
Lenin Prize (1967);
Fields Medal of the International Mathematical Union (1970);
Lobachevskii International Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981);
Wolf Prize (2005)