Biography
- In 1962-1963 studied at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239.
- In 1963-1964 studied at Kolmogorov School.
- In 1964-1969 studied at Mathematics & Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University. As a winner of IMO Yuri Matiyasevich was accepted without exams to LSU, skipping the last year of high school studies.
- In 1966 he presented a talk at International Congress of Mathematicians held in Moscow. He was a second year undergraduate student at that time.
- In 1969-1970 Ph.D. studies at Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics under supervision of Sergey Maslov.
- In 1970 he received Ph.D. degree at LOMI.
- In 1970-1974 researcher at LOMI.
- In 1972 he obtained a second doctoral degree (called "doktor nauk" in Soviet Union).
- In 1974-1980 senior researcher at LOMI.
- Since 1980 Yuri Matiyasevich has been the head of Laboratory of mathematical logic at LOMI.
- Since 1995 he has been a professor of Saint-Petersburg State University, initially at the chair of software engineering, later at the chair of algebra and number theory.
- In 1997 he was elected as a corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences.
- Since 1998 Yuri Matiyasevich has been a vice-president of St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
- Since 2002 he has been a head of St.Petersburg City Mathematical Olympiad.
- Since 2003 Yuri Matiyasevich has been a co-director of annual German-Russian student school JASS.
- In 2008 he was elected as a full member of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Read more about this topic: Yuri Matiyasevich
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)