Boris Feigin

Boris Feigin
Born
Boris Lvovich Feigin

(1953-11-20) 20 November 1953 (age 71)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsIndependent University of Moscow
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
National Research University – Higher School of Economics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisorIsrael Gelfand, Dmitry Fuchs
Doctoral studentsEdward Frenkel, Alexander Odesski, Boris Tsygan, Boris Shoikhet, Sergey Loktev, Sergey Arkhipov, Leonid Rybnikov, Vladimir Dotsenko, Anton Khoroshkin

Boris Lvovich Feigin (Russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Фе́йгин) (born 20 November 1953) is a Russian mathematician. His research has spanned representation theory, mathematical physics, algebraic geometry, Lie groups and Lie algebras, conformal field theory, homological and homotopical algebra.[1]

In 1969, Feigin graduated from the Moscow Mathematical School No. 2 (Andrei Zelevinsky was among his classmates). From 1969 until 1974, he was a student in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University (MSU) under joint supervision of Dmitry Fuchs and Israel Gelfand.[2] His diploma thesis was dedicated to characteristic classes of flags of foliations. Feigin was not accepted to the graduate school of MSU due to increasingly anti-semitic policies at that institution at that time. After working as a computer programmer in industry for some time, he was accepted in 1976 to the graduate school of Yaroslavl State University and defended his thesis "Cohomology of current Lie algebras on smooth manifolds" in 1981 at Steklov Institute in Leningrad. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto in 1990.[3] He obtained his habilitation in 1995.

Boris Feigin is a professor at the Independent University of Moscow and a senior research fellow at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1992. Since 2009, he is a professor of the Faculty of Mathematics at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). In 2013 he was promoted to Distinguished professor at HSE. Since 2014, he is the head of the Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics at HSE.[4]

In 2023, Feigin immigrated to Israel and joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[5]

Boris Feigin is a member of the editorial boards of mathematics journals Functional Analysis and Its Applications, Moscow Mathematical Journal, Transformation groups.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ A. Beilinson, A. Belavin, V. Drinfeld, M. Finkelberg, E. Frenkel, D. Fuchs, Yu. Ilyashenko, S. Lando, A. Sossinsky, M. Tsfasman, V. Vassiliev, A. Zelevinsky (2004). "Boris Feigin". Moscow Mathematical Journal.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Edward Frenkel (2014). "Chapter 11. Conquering the Summit". Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Basic Books. p. 304. ISBN 9780465064953.
  3. ^ "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". www.mathunion.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27.
  4. ^ "Boris L. Feigin".
  5. ^ "Prof. Boris Feigin | Einstein Institute of Mathematics". mathematics.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  6. ^ http://www.mathnet.ru/php/journal.phtml?jrnid=faa&option_lang=eng Website of the journal Functional Analysis and Its Applications
  7. ^ http://www.mathjournals.org/mmj/editorial.pdf Editorial Board of Moscow Mathematical Journal