Alexander Alexandrovich Kirillov Jr. () is a

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-born

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mathematician, working in the area of

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebra, abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their element (set theory), elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies Module (mathematics), ...

and

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s. He is a son of Russian mathematician

Alexandre Kirillov Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirilloff (, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, known for his works in the fields of representation theory, topological groups and Lie groups. In particular he introduced the orbit method into representa ...

Biography

Kirillov received his master's degree from

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1989 and Ph.D from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1995. He is currently a professor at

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

. Kirillov is a teacher of the project School Nova, trying to establish traditions of the Russian Mathematical Schools on American soil. He is also a member of the international volunteer organization Rubikus.HelpUA that helps Ukrainian refugees stranded in Russia after the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

to evacuate to EU.

Publications

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References

External links

Kirillov's homepage

Kirillov's page on the SchoolPlus project

Alexander Kirillov on the Mathematical Genealogy ProjectKirillov's page on the SchoolNova project
Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Russian mathematicians American people of Russian descent Yale University alumni New York University faculty Moscow State University alumni Living people {{Russia-scientist-stub