Aleksei Parshin

Aleksei Parshin
Алексей Паршин
Parshin in 2005
Born(1942-11-07)7 November 1942
Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died18 June 2022(2022-06-18) (aged 79)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Alma materSteklov Institute of Mathematics
Known for
Awards
  • Humboldt Prize (1996)
  • Vinogradov Prize (2004)
  • Chebyshev Gold Medal (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisAlgebraic curves over function fields (1968)
Doctoral advisor
Igor Shafarevich

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.