Shafarevich, Igor Rostislavovich

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 3 June 1923
3. Biographical Data
   1. Born in 1923, Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich is a Russian mathematician who has contributed to the algebraic number theory and the algebraic geometry. He has written books and articles that criticize socialism, and was an important dissident during the Soviet regime. In 1972, he became an active participant in the group of dissidents of which Solzhenitsyn was a leading member. As a consequence, he was dismissed from the University of Moscow in 1975. His scientific work was recognized abroad by his appointment as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 1974. In addition to his election to membership of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, he has been elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of London, the German Academy Leopoldina, the Italian Accademia dei Lincei and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Among the many prizes he has received, we mention the Lenin Prize and the Heinemann Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He has been made an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society. The University of Paris awarded him an honorary doctorate. Shafarevich adheres to Russian Orthodox Christianity and incorporates the neo-Platonic views of Eastern Orthodoxy into his understanding of the relation of mathematics and religion.
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