In the history of mathematics, Vladimir Sprindzuk is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Vladimir Sprindzuk as Soviet mathematician (1936-1987).
Vladimir Sprindzuk was born at Minsk in 1936. His recorded nationality is Russia.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Institute of Mathematics and Belarusian State University.
The recorded fields of work are number theory.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from Russia matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Vladimir Sprindzuk died in 1987, aged 51. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Institute of Mathematics and Belarusian State University
- Fields: number theory
