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MATHEMATICIAN

Pyotr Novikov

1901 - 1975

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Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Серге́евич Но́виков; 28 August 1901, Moscow – 9 January 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician. Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and his progress in the Burnside problem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Novikov has received more than 32,932 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Pyotr Novikov is the 723rd most popular mathematician (down from 610th in 2019), the 1,769th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,319th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pyotr Novikov ranks 723 out of 823Before him are Vera T. Sós, Solomon W. Golomb, Antanas Mockus, E. T. Whittaker, Cesare Arzelà, and Edmond Laguerre. After him are Leopold Vietoris, Grigore Moisil, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Tom M. Apostol, Wendelin Werner, and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Pyotr Novikov ranks 244Before him are Malcolm MacDonald, Mildred Davis, Frankie Genaro, Arthur Samuel, Heðin Brú, and Gerald Finzi. After him are László Németh, Mark Oliphant, Aleksandr Andronov, František Halas, Modesto Denis, and Paul Yü Pin. Among people deceased in 1975, Pyotr Novikov ranks 196Before him are Mary Ure, August Dvorak, Charles Reidpath, Niginho, Carl Silfverstrand, and Morgan Taylor. After him are László Németh, Frank Shields, Ali Sastroamidjojo, Glenn Hardin, Inga Tidblad, and Åge Lundström.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Novikov ranks 1,769 out of 3,262Before him are Nikolay Lvov (1753), Maria Yermolova (1853), Alexander Ovechkin (1985), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Lev Chugaev (1873), and Guzal Sitdikova (1952). After him are Oleg Menshikov (1960), Igor Kvasha (1933), Aleksei Arbuzov (1908), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Yuri Milner (1961), and Leonid Sedov (1907).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Pyotr Novikov ranks 50Before him are Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Dmitry Grave (1863), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Eugene Dynkin (1924), and Anatoly Karatsuba (1937). After him are Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitri Anosov (1936), and Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847).