Evgenii Solomonovich Golod was a Russian mathematician who proved the Golod-Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh-Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem.
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Academics
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Lived 1935 to 2018 · aged 82
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