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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

Russian mathematician (1929–2009).

Born March 30th, 1929 in Moscow.

Died February 21st, 2009 at 79 years old in Tel Aviv. [ref]

Occupations
mathematician

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner