Alexei Kostrikin

Alexei Ivanovich Kostrikin (12 February 1929 – 22 September 2000) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebra and algebraic geometry.

Life Kostrikin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University in 1952. In 1960, he earned a Doctor of Sciences degree under Igor Shafarevich at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics with a thesis on the Burnside problem. He became a faculty member at Moscow State University in 1963.

Books Alexei Kostrikin published many scientific articles, books and textbooks, including a university textbook about algebra Introduction to algebra, translated into English and other languages.

Selected publications Around Burnside, Springer Verlag 1990 2012 pbk reprint with Pham Huu Tiep: Orthogonal Decompositions and Integral Lattices, de Gruyter 1994 with Yuri Manin: Linear algebra and geometry, Gordon and Breach 1989; 1997 pbk edition Introduction to Algebra, Springer Verlag 1982 (Russian original 1977) Exercises in algebra: a collection of exercises in algebra, linear algebra and geometry, Gordon and Breach 1996