Eugene Plotkin

Eugene Plotkin was born in 1955 in Yekaterinburg

Eugene Plotkin was born in 1955 in Sverdlovsk. His parents came from Belarus and reached the city during World War II. His father, Boris Plotkin, was a mathematician who became a professor at the University of Latvia in Riga in 1961.

He studied mathematics at the university in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, and finished in 1978. He completed his doctoral work in 1985.

In 1978 he returned to Riga, where he worked at a research institute and later taught. Until 1993 he was an associate professor at Riga Technical University. In 1993 he began teaching at Bar-Ilan University, became a professor in 2002 and professor emeritus in 2023.

He published 68 papers, edited 3 mathematics journals and chaired or presided over 13 conferences. His research covered Chevalley groups, algebraic groups, algebraic K-theory, representation theory, universal algebra and logic. He was a visiting professor in Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States.

He also pursued photography, geology, writing and mushrooms, and published stories and a book on special stones. He married in 1977. He died on March 20, 2026, after a serious illness and was buried in Yarkon Cemetery.