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( Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Плато́нов) (born December 1, 1939) is a Belarusian mathematician.
Platonov received his doctorate from the University of Minsk in 1967. Since 1972 he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus . His interests are algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory.
A celebrated figure in his native Belarus, he is also a member of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was from 1993 to 2001 a Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe.
He is the author, with Andrei S. Rapinchuk , of Algebraic Groups and Number Theory (Academic Press, 1993).
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