12 Facts About Alexander Beilinson

Alexander A Beilinson was born on 1957 and is the David and Mary Winton Green University professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics.

Alexander Beilinson's research has spanned representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.

In 1999, Beilinson was awarded the Ostrowski Prize with Helmut Hofer.

Alexander Beilinson was born in Moscow of mostly Russian descent while his paternal grandfather was Jewish.

Alexander Beilinson went to Pedagogical Institute instead and transferred to Moscow State University when he was a third year student.

In 1978, Alexander Beilinson published a paper on coherent sheaves and several problems in linear algebra.

Alexander Beilinson's two-page note in the journal Functional Analysis and Its Applications was one of the papers on the study of derived categories of coherent sheaves.

In 1984, Alexander Beilinson published the paper Higher Regulators and values of L-functions, in which he related higher regulators for K-theory and their relationship to L-functions.

Alexander Beilinson continued to work on algebraic K-theory throughout the mid-1980s.

Alexander Beilinson collaborated with Pierre Deligne on the developing a motivic interpretation of Don Zagier's polylogarithm conjectures.

Alexander Beilinson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Alexander Beilinson was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1994 and again from 1996 to 1998.