Nikolai Durov
| Nikolai Durov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 November 1980 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University, University of Bonn |
| Occupation | Programmer, mathematician |
| Known for |
Founding VK in 2006 Founding Telegram Messenger in 2013 |
| Relatives | Pavel Durov (brother) |
| Website |
www |
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (Russian: Никола́й Вале́рьевич Ду́ров; born 21 November 1980) is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, together with whom he founded the social networking site VK[1] and later Telegram.[2]
Early life and education
In 1996, 1997 and 1998 Durov participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a gold medal in each of the three contests he took part in.[3] (where his contestant name was Nikolai Dourov.) In 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 he won one gold and three silver medals in the International Olympiad in Informatics.[4] He had been a member of Saint-Petersburg State University ACM team, which won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2000[5] and 2001.[6]
He received his first PhD from Saint-Petersburg State University in 2005. He continued his mathematical education at the University of Bonn having received another PhD under supervision of Gerd Faltings.[7]
Career
Research
Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry.[8] Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup.
He holds the position of a senior research fellow at the laboratory of algebra at the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.[9]
Other work
Durov worked as a lead developer of the VKontakte.ru team till 2013.[10]
Durov founded Telegram and developed the MTProto protocol for Telegram in 2013.
References
- ↑ Forumvk 2010 Vk.com stars
- ↑ TechCrunch
- ↑ IMO Hall of Fame
- ↑ IOI — Statistics
- ↑ Final report of the ACM programming contest 2000
- ↑ Final report of the ACM programming contest 2001
- ↑ List of Gerd Faltings selected PhD students'
- ↑ N. Durov, "A New Approach to Arakelov geometry", arXiv:0704.2030v1
- ↑ Personal page of N. Durov
- ↑ Anton, Blagoveshchensky (April 30, 2014). "Брат Павла Дурова предсказал новые увольнения из "ВКонтакте"". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
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