Igor Moiseevich Krichever (; 8 October 1950 – 1 December 2022) was a Russian academic and mathematician.
Biography
Krichever was born in Kuybyshev to aviation engineer Moisey Solomonovich Krichever and Maria Leyzerovna Arlievskaya. He received a silver medal at the 1967 International Mathematical Olympiad. 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. 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.