Igor Minevich
Bio
Igor Minevich was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (now Dnipro) and moved to the USA in 1997. He received a Bachelor of Science from IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN in 2009 and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 2014. He has taught at Boston College, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Earlham College before settling down at Wentworth. Besides mathematics, he enjoys practicing and studying yoga and meditation and is a RYT 200. His hobbies include chess, table tennis, playing piano, writing, and learning languages.
Education
Accomplishments
??*Promoted to Regular Appointment at Wentworth Fall 2025
*Presented "Lights Out and Locked In: Cryptology in Linear
Algebra I" at MAA MathFest August 2025
*Co-PI on MAA Tensor Grant 2025?
Research Interests
My main research area is in geometry, especially incorporating algebraic concepts such as groups, fields, and elliptic curves.
I also enjoy researching various aspects of the Lights Out Puzzle with undergraduates, and this research has expanded into a broad research project with Gabe Cunningham on a vast generalization of the Lights Out Puzzle over graphs, where instead of a light being "on" or "off", a vertex can be colored as an element of a mathematical group.
In the past, I was interested in algebraic topology and number theory, particularly applications of Grothendieck topologies to explore the cohomology of topological groups with the purpose of working with a generalization of the Riemann zeta function.