Alexander Ivanovich Skopin (Александр Иванович Скопин) (1927–2003) was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to abstract algebra.
[1] After the war, Alexander Skopin studied at Leningrad University, where he was a student of Dmitry Faddeev;[2] From that point to the end of his life, he worked as a researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute (where he was scientific secretary from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s) and taught algebra at the St. Petersburg University.
Skopin's student work was in abstract algebra, and concerned upper central series of groups and extensions of fields.
In the 1970s, Skopin received a second doctorate concerning the application of computer algebra systems to group theory.
From that point onward he used computational methods extensively in his research, which focussed on lower central series of Burnside groups.