Aleksandr Olshansky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Aleksandr Olshansky

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1946

Place of Birth: Saratov, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Aleksandr Yuryevich Olshansky (Russian: ????????? ??????? ??????????; born January 19, 1946, Saratov) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1979), laureate of the Maltsev Prize, a professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University (since 1999).
In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.
He is a specialist in the field of combinatorial and geometric group theory, and also has several papers on Lie algebras and associative algebras.
He is an honorary member of the American Mathematical Society.