nLab Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov

Pjotr Sergeevič Novikov also spelled Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov was a mathematicial logician from Soviet Union. He has shown that the word problem in some abstract groups is undecidable. Topologist Sergei Novikov, Fields medalist, is his son.

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