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On the Work of Efim Zelmanov

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Efim Zelmanov has received a Fields Medal for the solution of the restricted Burnside problem. This problem in group theory had long been known to be related to the theory of Lie algebras. In fact, to a large extent it is the problem in Lie algebras. A precise statement of it can be found in Section 2 below.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA

    Walter Feit

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  1. Département de Mathématiques, EPFL, 1015, Laussane, Switzerland

    S. D. Chatterji

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Feit, W. (1995). On the Work of Efim Zelmanov. In: Chatterji, S.D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_4

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