Alex Chigogidze is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Alex Chigogidze as mathematician.
Alex Chigogidze was born at Tbilisi in 1955. His recorded nationality is Russia. He studied at Tbilisi State University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Russia matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Alex Chigogidze died in 2014, aged 59. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
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