Won Leonard Euler Gold Medal (2017).
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Igor Shafarevich
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised socialism, as well as other literature which some described as antisemitic.
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science · Soviet and Russian mathematician and political dissident · mathematician · human rights defender · university teacher · dissident · also Igor Shafarevich, Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Shafarevich
Born 3 June 1923 · Died 19 February 2017 · Q710920
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2017· 3 entries
Died 2017-02-19.
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Shafarevich was awarded the Leonhard Euler Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences
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2005· 1 entry
Shafarevich was amongst the signatories of the Letter of 5000
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1994· 1 entry
Joined the "All-Russian National Right Wing Centre", led by Mikhail Astafyev
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1993· 1 entry
Was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Duma with Mikhail Astafyev's Constitutional Democratic Party - Party of Popular Freedom
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1982· 1 entry
And it was initially circulated as samizdat
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1981).
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Was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society
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1980· 1 entry
Analyzed numerous examples of socialism from ancient times to various medieval heresies and a variety of modern thinkers and socialist states
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1978).
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1975· 1 entry
English edition 1980), which was cited by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 address to Harvard University
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1970–1973).
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1960· 1 entry
Was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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1946· 1 entry
Studied at Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (1944–1946).
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1944· 1 entry
Studied at MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1939–1944).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-06-03.
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