Andrei Suslin

Andrei Alexandrovich Suslin, sometimes also transcribed Souslin, (Russian: Андрей Александрович Суслин; * December 27, 1950 in Leningrad ) is a Russian mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and algebra.

Life and work

Suslin 1967 won the first prize in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He studied in St. Petersburg ( then Leningrad ), where in 1972 he made ​​his final and was awarded his doctorate in 1975. In 1977 he received his doctorate (in the west a postdoctoral accordingly) with the work of Serre 's problem and related issues. For the solution of problem Serres he received in 1980 the Leninsky Komsomol - price. In 1977 he became a professor at the Steklov Institute in Leningrad. In 1994 he became a professor at Northwestern University.

Serres problem from commutative algebra resistance since its formulation in 1955 all solution attempts and was solved independently by Suslin and Daniel Quillen (now " set of Quillen - Suslin ": All projective modules over polynomial are free) ..

In 1982 he proved with Alexander Merkurjev one named after them set of algebraic K- theory of division algebras.

Suslin worked with the Fields Prize winner Vladimir Wojewodski to motivic cohomology theories, which has set itself the goal of algebraic varieties to play a similar role as the singular cohomology in algebraic topology, with appropriate links to the ( algebraic ) K- theory. In Higher Chow groups and etale Cohomology he clarified the connection of the higher Chow groups of Spencer Bloch motivic cohomology theory to Wojewodskis.

1978, 1986 and 1994 ( Algebraic K- theory and motivic cohomology ) he was invited speaker at the ICM (International Congress of Mathematicians ), 1986, Plenary Speaker ( Algebraic K -theory of fields ). In 2000 he was awarded the Cole Prize in Algebra.