| Igor Krichever | |
| Birth Name: | Igor Moiseevich Krichever |
| Birth Date: | 1950 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Kuybyshev, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Death Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Professor Mathematician |
| Education: | MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics |
Igor Moiseevich Krichever (ru|Игорь Моисеевич Кричевер; 8 October 1950 – 1 December 2022) was a Russian academic and mathematician.[1]
Krichever was born in Kuybyshev to aviation engineer Moisey Solomonovich Krichever[2] and Maria Leyzerovna Arlievskaya.[3] He received a silver medal at the 1967 International Mathematical Olympiad.[4] He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1972.
From 1975 to 1988, Krichever was a researcher at the . He was then a senior researcher at the . In 1990, he became a senior researcher for the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 1996, he was a professor at the Independent University of Moscow. In 1997, he became a professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he served as dean of the mathematics department from 2008 to 2011.[5] In 2013, he became a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. That same year, he became deputy director of the .
In 2011, Krichever was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class.
Igor Krichever died in New York City on 1 December 2022, at the age of 72.[6]