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Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich

lived from 1923 to 2017

Igor Shafarevich was a Russian mathematician who worked in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He was an important dissident during the Soviet era.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shafarevich/