What is Igor Shafarevich?
[[File:Igor Shafarevich.jpeg|thumb|200px|Igor Shafarevich]] '''Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich''' ({{Lang-ru|И́горь Ростисла́вович Шафаре́вич}}; 3 June 1923 &ndash; 19 February 2017) was a [[Russians|Russian]] [[mathematician]]. He contributed to [[algebraic number theory]] and [[algebraic geometry]]. He also wrote books and articles which criticise [[socialism]]. He was an important [[dissident]] during the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] regime. He was born in [[Zhytomyr]], [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{Cite book|first=Krista|last=Berglund|title=The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker|url=https://archive.org/details/vexingcaseigorsh00berg|year=2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/vexingcaseigorsh00berg/page/n34 21]}}</ref> Shafarevich died on 19 February 2017 in [[Moscow]], at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://deita.ru/news/society/20.02.2017/5186530-ushel-iz-zhizni-matematik-i-filosof-igor-shafarevich/|title=Ушел из жизни математик и философ Игорь Шафаревич|work=Deita.ru|date=20 February 2017|accessdate=20 February 2017|language=Russian|archive-date=22 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222064643/http://deita.ru/news/society/20.02.2017/5186530-ushel-iz-zhizni-matematik-i-filosof-igor-shafarevich/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Shafarevich.html Igor Shafarevich] at [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/ The MacTutor History of Mathematics] {{DEFAULTSORT:Shafarevich, Igor}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Foreign Members of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Soviet dissidents]] [[Category:Russian geometers]] [[Category:Russian Orthodox Christians]] [[Category:Number theorists]] [[Category:Algebraic geometers]] [[Category:Zhytomyr Oblast]] {{Bio-stub}}