Nikolai Durov

Nikolai Durov

Nikolai Durov (full name Nikolai Valeryevich Durov, Николай Валерьевич Дуров) (born 1980) is a Russian mathematician and programmer. He is one of the founders[1] of Vkontakte.ru web site.

Early life and education

In 1996, 1997 and 1998 Durov participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a gold medal in every of the three contests he took part in.[2] He had been a member of Saint-Petersburg State University ACM team, which won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2000[3] and 2001.[4]

Career

He received his first PhD from Saint-Petersburg State University in 2005. He continued his mathematical education at the University of Bonn having received another PhD under supervision of Gerd Faltings.[5] Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry.[6] Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup. Currently Durov works as a lead developer of vkontakte.ru team. He also holds the position of a senior research fellow at the laboratory of algebra at the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.[7]

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