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{{Short description|Russian mathematician (1927–2003)}}
'''Alexander Ivanovich Skopin''' (Александр Иванович Скопин) (1927–2003) was a Russian [[mathematician]] known for his contributions to [[abstract algebra]].

==Biography==
Skopin was born on October 22, 1927, in [[Leningrad]], the son of Ivan Alexandrovich Skopin, who was himself also a [[number theory|number theorist]] and a student of [[Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov]], and who died in the [[Siege of Leningrad]].<ref name=mactutor>{{MacTutor Biography|id= Skopin}}</ref>  After the war, Alexander Skopin studied at [[Leningrad University]], where he was a student of Dmitry Faddeev;<ref>{{mathgenealogy|name=Alexander Ivanovich Skopin|id=85201}}.</ref> From that point to the end of his life, he worked as a researcher at the [[Steklov Mathematical Institute]] (where he was scientific secretary from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s) and taught algebra at the [[St. Petersburg University]]. He died on September 15, 2003, in St. Petersburg.

==Research==
Skopin's student work was in [[abstract algebra]], and concerned [[Central series#Upper central series|upper central series]] of [[Group (mathematics)|groups]] and [[Field extension|extensions of fields]]. In the 1970s, Skopin received a second doctorate concerning the application of [[computer algebra system]]s to [[group theory]]. From that point onward he used computational methods extensively in his research, which focussed on [[Central series#Lower central series|lower central series]] of [[Burnside group]]s. He related this problem to problems in other areas of mathematics including [[linear algebra]] and [[topological sorting]] of [[Graph (discrete mathematics)|graphs]].<ref name=mactutor/>

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