Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (Ефим Исаакович Зельманов: born September 7, 1955) is a mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Group theory is that branch of mathematics concerned with the study of groups. ... One of the oldest open problems in group theory was first posed by William Burnside in a paper published in 1902. ... The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union, since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. ...

He was born into a Jewish family in Khabarovsk, Soviet Union (Russia)He took a doctoral degree at Novosibirsk University, and a higher degree at Leningrad State University in 1985. He had a position in Novosibirsk until 1987, when he left the Soviet Union. The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) (population 582,700) is the capital city of the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, some 30 km from the Chinese border, at 48°25′ N 135°07′ E. In Chinese, the city is also known as Bуlм (伯力, pinyin: bai3 li4). ... Novosibirsk (Russian Новосиби́рск, pop. ... Categories: Russia-related stubs | Universities and colleges in Russia | Saint Petersburg ...

From 1990 he was professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he was at the University of Chicago in 1994/5, then at Yale University. Plaque on Bascom Hall, UW-Madison. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ...

As of 2002, he is professor at the University of California, San Diego. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ...

His early work was on Jordan algebras in the case of infinite dimensions. He was able to show that Glennie's identity in a certain sense generates all identities that hold. He then showed that the Engel identity for Lie algebras implies nilpotence, in the case of infinite dimensions. In mathematics, a Jordan algebra is defined in abstract algebra as an algebra over a field with multiplication satisfying the following axioms: (commutative law) (Jordan identity) Jordan algebras were first introduced by Pascual Jordan in quantum mechanics. ... In mathematics, a Lie algebra is an algebraic structure whose main use lies in studying geometric objects such as Lie groups and differentiable manifolds. ...