Viatcheslav Mikhailovich Kharlamov (Вячеслав Михайлович Харламов, born 28 January 1950,
Leningrad) is a Russian-French mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and differential topology.
Kharlamov studied from 1967 to 1972 at the
Leningrad State University
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, where he received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1975 under
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, with the thesis ''Inequalities and congruences for Euler characteristics of certain real algebraic varieties''. From 1968, he taught at the
Specialized Physics-Mathematics Boarding School No. 45 associated with
Leningrad University (concurrently with his studies and research at the university) and from 1976, he was a professor at
Syktyvkar State University. From 1979 to 1991 he was a professor at the
Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. In 1985 he received his Russian
D.Sc.
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(
habilitation
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) degree with the thesis ''Nonsingular surfaces of degree four in the real three-dimensional projective space''. He has been a professor at the
University of Strasbourg since 1991, where he is a permanent member of the team at the Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, UMRI 7501,
CNRS
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.
From 1972 he succeeded in solving a part of
Hilbert's sixteenth problem
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The original problem was posed as the ''Problem of the topolo ...
concerning the number of components and the topology of non-singular fourth-order algebraic surfaces in three dimensions. In 1976, he completed his research on this.
In 1977 he was awarded the prize of the
Moscow Mathematical Society
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History
The first meeting of the society wa ...
. In 1978 he was an Invited Speaker of the
ICM in
Helsinki.
[Kharlamov, V. M. "Real algebraic surfaces." In ''Proceedings International Congress Math. Helsinki, 1978'', vol. 1, pp. 421–428]
He has French citizenship. His doctoral students include
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and Thomas Fiedler.
Selected publications
* with Alexander Degtyarev and Ilya Itenberg
''Real Enriques Surfaces'' Springer Verlag, 2000
''Variétés de Fano réelles, d'après C. Viterbo '' Bourbaki Séminaire 872, 1999/2000
* with S. Yu. Orevkov and E. I. Shustin
"Singularity which has no ''M''-smoothing"in ''The Arnoldfest: Proceedings of a Conference in Honour of V.I. Arnold for his Sixtieth Birthday.'' Vol. 24. American Mathematical Soc., 1999.
* with
O. Ya. Viro, O. A. Ivanov, and N. Yu. Netsvetaev
''Elementary Topology: Problem Textbook'' American Mathematical Society, 2008
* as editor with A. Korchagin, G. Polotovskii, and O. Viro
''Topology of Real Algebraic Varieties and Related Topics'' American Mathematical Society, 1996
References
External links
mathnet.ru
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Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
1950 births
Living people