Efim Zelmanov
Efim Zelmanov · Science & Medicine
Group theory; solved the restricted Burnside problem (Fields Medal)
1955, Khabarovsk, Soviet Union (Russia)
Russia · United States (San Diego, California)
Efim Zelmanov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Group theory; solved the restricted Burnside problem (Fields Medal)
Zelmanov, a Jewish mathematician from Soviet Khabarovsk, solved the restricted Burnside problem in group theory, proving that finitely generated groups of a given exponent are finite. Drawing on deep Lie-algebra methods, the achievement resolved a question open for decades and earned him the Fields Medal in 1994.
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Group theory; solved the restricted Burnside problem (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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