Alexei Skorobogatov

Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Скоробога́тов) is a British-Russian mathematician and Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London specialising in algebraic geometry. His work has focused on rational points, the Hasse principle, the Manin obstruction, exponential sums, and error-correcting codes.

Alexei Skorobogatov
Born	(1961-11-04) 4 November 1961 (age 63) Moscow, USSR
Nationality	Russian, British
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Awards	Whitehead Prize (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Imperial College London
Doctoral advisor	Yuri Manin

Education

He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.^[1]

Awards

In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.^[2]

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to the Diophantine geometry of surfaces and higher dimensional varieties".^[3]

Books

• Alexei Skorobogatov (2001). Torsors and Rational Points. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80237-6.
• Alexei Skorobogatov; Miles Reid (2004). Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54518-1.