Igor Krichever

Krichever was born in Kuybyshev to aviation engineer Moisey Solomonovich Krichever^[2] and Maria Leyzerovna Arlievskaya.^[3] He received a silver medal at the 1967 International Mathematical Olympiad.^[4] He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1972.

From 1975 to 1988, Krichever was a researcher at the Energy Institute G. M. Krzhizhanovsky [ru]. He was then a senior researcher at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences [ru]. In 1990, he became a senior researcher for the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 1996, he was a professor at the Independent University of Moscow. In 1997, he became a professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he served as dean of the mathematics department from 2008 to 2011.^[5] In 2013, he became a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. That same year, he became deputy director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences [ru].

In 2011, Krichever was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class.

Igor Krichever died in New York City on 1 December 2022, at the age of 72.^[6]

• Braverman, Alexander; Etingof, Pavel; Okounkov, Andrei; Phong, Duong; Wiegmann, Pavel; Arbarello, Enrico; Brazovski, Serguei; Drinfeld, Vladimir; Dzhamay, Anton; Grushevsky, Samuel; Nekrasov, Nikita; Novikov, Sergei; Takhtajan, Leon; Varchenko, Alexander; Veselov, Alexander; Zabrodin, Anton; Smoliarova, Tatiana (April 2024). "In Memory of Igor Krichever" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 71 (4): 483–499. doi:10.1090/noti2909.