About Evgeny Golod
Lived 1935 – 2018 (aged 82). Evgeny Golod was a Russian mathematician and university teacher.
Evgenii Solomonovich Golod (, 21 October 1935 – 5 July 2018) was a Russian mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem.
Golod was a student of Igor Shafarevich. As of 2015, Golod had 39 academic descendants, most of them through his student Luchezar L. Avramov.
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Who was Evgeny Golod?
Russian mathematician (1935-2018)
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Evgeny Golod was born on 21 October 1935 in Moscow.
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Evgeny Golod died on 5 July 2018.
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Evgeny Golod was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Evgeny Golod was Russian.
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