Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University. University of Bonn.
Saint St. Petersburg State University. University of Bonn.
He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, together with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram. In 1996, 1997 and 1998 Durov participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a gold medal in each of the three contests he took part in. He received his first Doctor of Philosophy from Saint-St. Petersburg State University in 2005.
He continued his mathematical education at the University of Bonn having received another Doctor of Philosophy under supervision of Gerd Faltings.
Research Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry. Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup.
He holds the position of a senior research fellow at the laboratory of algebra at the Saint St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Other work Durov worked as a lead developer of the VKontakte.ru team till 2013.