Education
From 1965 onwards Arakelov attended the Mathematics department of Moscow State University, where he graduated in 1971.
From 1965 onwards Arakelov attended the Mathematics department of Moscow State University, where he graduated in 1971.
In 1974, Arakelov received his candidate of sciences degree from the Steklov Institute in Moscow, under the supervision of Igor Shafarevich. He then worked as a junior researcher at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow until 1979. Then he stopped his research activity because of schizophrenia.
Was exploited by Paul Vojta to give a new proof of the Mordell conjecture and by Gerd Faltings in his proof of Language"s generalization of the Mordell conjecture.