Yuri Matiyasevich - Notable Facts

Notable Facts

  • A polynomial related to colorings of triangulation of sphere was named after Matiyasevich, see The Matiyasevich polynomial, four colour theorem and weight systems.
  • Member of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Symbolic Logic.
  • Member of the editorial boards for the journals Discrete Mathematics and Applications and Computer Instruments in Education.
  • His Erdős number is 2: Yuri Matiyasevich - Richard Guy - Paul Erdős.
  • Notable students include: Eldar Musayev, Maxim Vsemirnov, Alexei Pastor, Dmitri Karpov, Yury Lifshits.

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