Yuri Matiyasevich

Yuri Matiyasevich
Born	(1947-03-02) March 2, 1947 Leningrad, USSR
Residence	USSR, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematics and Theoretical computer science
Institutions	Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Known for	his contribution to computability theory, especially solving Hilbert's tenth problem
Notable awards	Petersburg Mathematical Society Prize (1970), Markov Prize (1980), Humboldt Award (1998)

Yuri Vladimirovich Matiyasevich, (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Матиясе́вич; born March 2, 1947 in Leningrad) is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, presented in his doctoral thesis, at LOMI (the Leningrad Department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics).

Biography

• In 1962-1963 studied at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239.
• In 1963-1964 studied at Kolmogorov School.
• In 1964-1969 studied at Mathematics & Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University. As a winner of IMO Yuri Matiyasevich was accepted without exams to LSU, skipping the last year of high school studies.
• In 1966 he presented a talk at International Congress of Mathematicians held in Moscow. He was a second year undergraduate student at that time.
• In 1969-1970 Ph.D. studies at Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics under supervision of Sergey Maslov.
• In 1970 he received Ph.D. degree at LOMI.
• In 1970-1974 researcher at LOMI.
• In 1972 he obtained a second doctoral degree (called "doktor nauk" in Soviet Union).
• In 1974-1980 senior researcher at LOMI.
• Since 1980 Yuri Matiyasevich has been the head of Laboratory of mathematical logic at LOMI.
• Since 1995 he has been a professor of Saint-Petersburg State University, initially at the chair of software engineering, later at the chair of algebra and number theory.
• In 1997 he was elected as a corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Since 1998 Yuri Matiyasevich has been a vice-president of St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
• Since 2002 he has been a head of St.Petersburg City Mathematical Olympiad.
• Since 2003 Yuri Matiyasevich has been a co-director of annual German-Russian student school JASS.
• In 2008 he was elected as a full member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Awards and honors

• In 1964 Yuri Matiyasevich won a gold medal at International Mathematical Olympiad held in Moscow.
• In 1970 Yuri Matiyasevich received the "Young mathematician" prize of the Leningrad Mathematical Society.
• In 1980 Yuri Matiyasevich received a Markov Prize of Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
• In 1996 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université d'Auvergne.
• In 1998 he received Humboldt Research Award to Outstanding Scholars.
• In 2003 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris-6).
• In 2007 he was elected to Bayern Academy of Sciences.

Notable facts

• A polynomial related to colorings of triangulation of sphere was named after Matiyasevich, see The Matiyasevich polynomial, four colour theorem and weight systems.
• Member of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Symbolic Logic.
• Member of the editorial boards for the journals Discrete Mathematics and Applications and Computer Instruments in Education.
• His Erdős number is 2: Yuri Matiyasevich - Richard Guy - Paul Erdős.
• Notable students include: Eldar Musayev, Maxim Vsemirnov, Alexei Pastor, Dmitri Karpov, Yury Lifshits.

Selected works

Book

• Yuri Matiyasevich Hilbert's 10th Problem, Foreword by Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam, The MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0-262-13295-8.

Papers

• Yuri Matiyasevich (1973). "Real-time recognition of the inclusion relation". Journal of Sovjet Mathematics 1 (1): 64–70. ISSN 0090-4104. http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~yumat/Journal/inclusion/inclusion.pdf. 
• Yuri Matiyasevich, Julia Robinson (1975). "Reduction of an arbitrary Diophantine equation to one in 13 unknowns". Acta Arithmetica XXVII: 521-549. http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~yumat/Journal/reduction/reduction.html. 
• Yuri Matiyasevich, Géraud Sénizergues (1996). "Decision Problems for Semi-Thue Systems with a Few Rules". LICS. http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~ges/termination.ps. 
• Yuri Matiyasevich, Proof Procedures as Bases for Metamathematical Proofs in Discrete Mathematics, Personal Journal of Yury Matiyasevich.
• Yuri Matiyasevich, Elimination of bounded universal quantifiers standing in front of a quantifier-free arithmetical formula, Personal Journal of Yuri Matiyasevich.
• Yuri Matiyasevich, A Polynomial related to Colourings of Triangulation of Sphere, Personal Journal of Yuri Matiyasevich.
• Yuri Matiyasevich (2004). "Some Probabilistic Restatements of the Four Color Conjecture". Journal of Graph Theory 46 (3): 167–179. doi:10.1002/jgt.10178. http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~yumat/Journal/prob4cc/prob4cc.ps.gz. 

See also

• Matiyasevich's theorem

External links

• Yuri Matiyasevich's home page.
• Yuri Matiyasevich at DBLP.
• Yuri Matiyasevich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Hilbert's Tenth Problem: a History of Mathematical Discovery.
• Yuri Matiyasevich's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Matiyasevich theorem on Scholarpedia.
• Vita and collaboration with France (French).
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Yuri Matiyasevich", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Matiyasevich.html .