Aleksandr Khazanov
Aleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov (May 4, 1979 – June 2001) was a Russian American mathematician. A child prodigy, he wrote a perfect paper at the International Mathematical Olympiad 1994,[1] one of the youngest ever to do so. Khazanov was reported missing on June 17, 2001.[2] He suffered from depression or bipolar disorder.
Born to Anna and Leonid Khazanov, a math professor, Aleksandr moved to the Brooklyn, New York, in 1992. He attended Stuyvesant High School, and was named a finalist and eventually placed 7th at the 54th Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a paper dealing with a variant of Fermat's Last Theorem.[3][4]
See also
- Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931), another short-lived mathematician
References
- ↑ "Perfect Score for Americans in World Math Tourney". nytimes.com. July 20, 1994. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- ↑ Mbugua, Martin (June 17, 2001). "B'klyn Student, 22, Missing A Week". New York Daily News.
- ↑ Khazanov, Alex (1995). "Fermat's Equation in Matrices" (PDF). Serdica Mathematical Journal. 21 (1): 19–40.
- ↑ Belluck, Pam (January 25, 1995). "At 15, Westinghouse Finalist Grasps 'Holy Grail' of Math". New York Times.
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