Abstract
Igor Shafarevich is one of the major mathematicians of the century, as much by his great papers as by his influence via his students and the school of mathematics he created since the 1950s. He was a dissident in the Soviet Union, and spoke out throughout his life at times when it was dangerous to do so. He received the admiration and public support of the international mathematical community in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Lang, S. (1998). The Shafarevich Case and the National Academy of Sciences. In: Challenges. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1638-4_7
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