Yury Yershov
Russian mathematician
Yury Leonidovich Yershov (Russian: Ю́рий Леони́дович Ершо́в, born 1 May 1940 [1]) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
Yury Yershov was born in 1940 in Novosibirsk. In 1958 he entered the Tomsk State University and in 1963 graduated from the Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University. In 1964 he successfully defended his PhD thesis "Decidable and Undecidable Theories" (advisor Anatoly Maltsev). In 1966 he successfully defended his DrSc thesis "Elementary Theory of Fields" (Элементарные теория полей).
Apart from being a mathematician, Yershov was a member of the Communist Party and had different distinguished administrative duties in Novosibirsk State University. Yershov has been accused of antisemitic practices, and his visit to the U.S. in 1980 drew public protests by a number of U.S. mathematicians. Yershov himself denied the validity of these accusations.
Yury Yershov is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus of Novosibirsk State University and a former Rector of the Novosibirsk State University.
He has been working at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics since 1963.
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