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Moishe KohanSergei Novikov, 03.20.1938-06.06.2024, passed away on 6 June 2024. Novikov received Fields Medal in 1970 for his work in topology.

Sergei Petrovich Novikov (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Но́виков; 20 March 1938 – 6 June 2024) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. He became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal in 1970. == Biography == Novikov was born on 20 March 1938 in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). He grew up in a family of talented mathematicians. His father was Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, who gave a negative solution to the word problem for groups. His mother, Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh, and maternal uncle, Mstislav...

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