Yuriy Drozd ( uk, Юрій Анатолійович Дрозд; born October 15, 1944) is a
Ukrainian
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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working primarily in
algebra
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. He is a Corresponding Member of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...
and head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at the
Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Biography
Yiriy Drozd graduated from
Kyiv University
Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...
in 1966, pursuing a postgraduate degree at the
Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1969. His PhD dissertation ''On Some Questions of the Theory of Integral Representations'' (1970) was supervised by
Igor Shafarevich.
From 1969 to 2006 Drozd worked at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Kyiv University (at first as lecturer, then as associate professor and full professor). From 1980 to 1998 he headed the Department of Algebra and Mathematical Logic. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Department of Algebra and Topology (until 2014 - the Department of Algebra) of the
Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
His doctoral students include
Volodymyr Mazorchuk.
References
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Personal site
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
External links
* Yuriy Drozd
Introduction to Algebraic Geometry(course lecture notes,
University of Kaiserslautern
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* Yuriy Drozd
Vector Bundles over Projective Curves
* Yuriy Drozd
General Properties of Surface Singularities
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Scientists from Kyiv
Ukrainian mathematicians
1944 births
Living people
NASU Institute of Mathematics
Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Algebraists
Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology