Kostrikin, Aleksei

Kostrikin, Aleksei Ivanovich

 

Born Feb. 12, 1929, in the village of Bol’shoi Morets, Volgograd Oblast. Soviet mathematician. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976). Member of the CPSU since 1962.

Kostrikin graduated from Moscow State University in 1952 and became a professor there in 1976. In 1956 he joined the staff of the V. A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His principal works deal with Lie algebras and their applications to finite groups.

Kostrikin was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1968.

WORKS

“O probleme Bernsaida.” Izv. AN SSSR: Ser. matematicheskaia, 1959, vol. 23, no. 1.
“Graduirovannye algebry Li konechnoi kharakteristiki.” Izv. AN SSSR: Ser. matematicheskaia, 1969, vol. 33, no. 2. (With I. R. Shafarevich.)
“Parametricheskoe semeistvo prostykh algebr Li.” Izv. AN SSSR: Ser. matematicheskaia, 1970, vol. 34, no. 4.