Sergei Vostokov

Sergei Vostokov
Native name Sergei Vladimirovich Vostokov
Born (1945-04-13) April 13, 1945
Saint Petersburg, USSR
Residence Russia
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Saint Petersburg University
Alma mater Saint Petersburg University
Doctoral students Ivan Fesenko, Denis Benois, Mikhail Bondarko, Igor Zhukov
Known for explicit formulas for the Hilbert symbol, Vostokov symbol
Notable awards Chebyshev Prize (2014)

Sergei Vladimirovich Vostokov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Востоков; born April 13, 1945) is a Russian mathematician. He made major contributions to local number theory. He is a professor at St. Petersburg State University.

Work

Vostokov developed an important class of explicit formulas for the Hilbert symbol on local fields, which have a wide range of applications in number theory.[1]

His formulas generalize to formal groups. A generalization of his explicit formula to higher local fields is called the Vostokov symbol. It plays an important role in higher local class field theory.[2]

Prizes

For his 60th birthday, two special volumes of St Petersburg Mathematical Society of Vostokov were published in Russian and English by the American Mathematical Society.[3][4]

In 2014 Vostokov was awarded the Chebyshev Prize.[5]

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