Awards & Winners

Sergei Novikov

Date of Birth 20-March-1938
Place of Birth Nizhny Novgorod
(Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)
Nationality
Profession Mathematician
Sergei Petrovich Novikov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. In 1970, he won the Fields Medal.

Awards by Sergei Novikov

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sergei Novikov.

2005


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(For his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.)

1970


Fields Medal
(For proving the topological invariance of the rational Pontryagin classes, and posed the Novikov conjecture.)