Suren Arakelov

Suren Jurjewitsch Arakelow (Russian Сурен Юрьевич Аракелов, scientific transliteration Suren Arakelov Jur'evič; born October 16, 1947 in Kharkiv ) is a Russian mathematician who worked on arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Arakelow studied from 1965 Mathematics at the Moscow State Lomonosov University, where he graduated in 1971. His candidate tracks ( thesis ) he received in 1974 at the Steklov Institute with Igor Shafarevich. After that, he was a scientist ( mathematically field ) at the Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow. In 1979 he had to give up his scientific work, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He lives (2002) in Moscow with his wife and two children.

Arakelow is known for the eponymous theory, which was used by Gerd Faltings in 1983 for the proof of the Mordell conjecture. In her study of Diophantine equations is " completed " ( points on curves over the integers ) by Grothendieck schemes over by the addition of a " point at infinity " ( the holomorphic vector bundles over Hermitian metric with ). The theory attempts to provide a geometric framework for studying number-theoretic problems.

In 1974 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver ( Theory of intersection on the arithmetic surface).