Alexei Skorobogatov Scientist

Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Скоробога́тов) - a Russian mathematician, a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London specialising in algebraic geometry.He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.He has published papers: on rational points, -the Hasse principle -the Manin obstruction, -exponential sums, -combinatorics -error-correcting codes. In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.