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Aleksei Parshin
Aleksei Nikolaevich Parshin (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Паршин; 7 November 1942 – 18 June 2022) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry. He is most well-known for his role in the proof of the Mordell conjecture.
Parshin entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1959 and graduated in 1964. He then enrolled as a graduate student at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where he received his Kand. Nauk (Ph.D.) in 1968 under Igor Shafarevich. In 1983, he received his Doctor Nauk (doctorate of sciences) from Moscow State University.
Parshin became a junior research fellow at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow in 1968, later becoming a senior and leading research fellow. He became the head of its Department of Algebra in 1995. He also taught at Moscow State University.
In his 1968 thesis, Parshin proved that the Mordell conjecture is a logical consequence of Shafarevich's finiteness conjecture concerning isomorphism classes of abelian varieties via what is known as Parshin's trick, which gives an embedding of an algebraic curve into the Siegel modular variety. Shafarevich proved his finiteness conjecture for the case with genus g = 1. Parshin proved a special case (for S = the empty set) of the following theorem: If B is a smooth complex curve and S is a finite subset of B then there exist only finitely many families (up to isomorphism) of smooth curves of fixed genus g ≥ 2 over B \ S. The general case (for non-empty S) of the preceding theorem was proved by Suren Arakelov in 1971. At the same time, Parshin gave a new proof (without an application of the Shafarevich finiteness condition) of the Mordell conjecture in function fields (already proved by Yuri Manin in 1963 and by Hans Grauert in 1965). In 1983, Gerd Faltings completed the program and proved Shafarevich's finiteness conjecture, thereby proving the Mordell conjecture.
His other research dealt with generalizations of class field theory in higher dimensions, with integrable systems, and with the history of mathematics.
He was an editor for the Russian edition of the collected works of David Hilbert and was a co-editor, with V. I. Arnold, of selected works of Hermann Weyl.
Parshin was born on 7 November 1942 in Sverdlovsk and died on 18 June 2022.
Parshin was longtime friends with Russian philosopher Aleksei Losev and started the Russian philosophy seminar at the Dom Loseva Library in Moscow. Parshin was Orthodox Christian and wrote about the relationship between Russian religious philosophy and the modern sciences.
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Aleksei Parshin
Aleksei Nikolaevich Parshin (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Паршин; 7 November 1942 – 18 June 2022) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry. He is most well-known for his role in the proof of the Mordell conjecture.
Parshin entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1959 and graduated in 1964. He then enrolled as a graduate student at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where he received his Kand. Nauk (Ph.D.) in 1968 under Igor Shafarevich. In 1983, he received his Doctor Nauk (doctorate of sciences) from Moscow State University.
Parshin became a junior research fellow at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow in 1968, later becoming a senior and leading research fellow. He became the head of its Department of Algebra in 1995. He also taught at Moscow State University.
In his 1968 thesis, Parshin proved that the Mordell conjecture is a logical consequence of Shafarevich's finiteness conjecture concerning isomorphism classes of abelian varieties via what is known as Parshin's trick, which gives an embedding of an algebraic curve into the Siegel modular variety. Shafarevich proved his finiteness conjecture for the case with genus g = 1. Parshin proved a special case (for S = the empty set) of the following theorem: If B is a smooth complex curve and S is a finite subset of B then there exist only finitely many families (up to isomorphism) of smooth curves of fixed genus g ≥ 2 over B \ S. The general case (for non-empty S) of the preceding theorem was proved by Suren Arakelov in 1971. At the same time, Parshin gave a new proof (without an application of the Shafarevich finiteness condition) of the Mordell conjecture in function fields (already proved by Yuri Manin in 1963 and by Hans Grauert in 1965). In 1983, Gerd Faltings completed the program and proved Shafarevich's finiteness conjecture, thereby proving the Mordell conjecture.
His other research dealt with generalizations of class field theory in higher dimensions, with integrable systems, and with the history of mathematics.
He was an editor for the Russian edition of the collected works of David Hilbert and was a co-editor, with V. I. Arnold, of selected works of Hermann Weyl.
Parshin was born on 7 November 1942 in Sverdlovsk and died on 18 June 2022.
Parshin was longtime friends with Russian philosopher Aleksei Losev and started the Russian philosophy seminar at the Dom Loseva Library in Moscow. Parshin was Orthodox Christian and wrote about the relationship between Russian religious philosophy and the modern sciences.