Viacheslav Valentinovich Nikulin (Slava) is a Russian mathematician working in the algebraic geometry of K3 surfaces and Calabi–Yau threefolds, mirror symmetry, the arithmetic of quadratic forms, and hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras.[1] He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool. A third chair of mathematics was established for Nikulin in 1999, the second chair having been established in 1964 for C. T. C. Wall and the first having been established in 1882.[2] Nikulin has made contributions towards the solution of Hilbert's 16th problem.[3]

Viacheslav Nikulin
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Known forAlgebraic geometry
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool
Doctoral advisorIgor Shafarevich

Publications

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  • Nikulin, V. V.; Shafarevich, I. R. (1994), Geometries and Groups, Springer, ISBN 3-540-15281-4; translated from the Russian by M. Reid; first published in English in 1987{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[4]
  • Alexeev, V.; Nikulin, V. V. (2006), Del Pezzo and K3 Surfaces, The Mathematical Society of Japan, ISBN 4-931469-34-5

References

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  1. ^ Nikulin's University of Liverpool webpage
  2. ^ University of Liverpool Committee Secretariat Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Yandell, B. H. (2004), The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, A K Peters, p. 278, ISBN 1-56881-216-7
  4. ^ Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. (1989). "Review of Geometries and Groups". The American Mathematical Monthly. 96 (4): 370–373. doi:10.1080/00029890.1989.11972199. ISSN 0002-9890. JSTOR 2324107.