After completing undergraduate study in 1965 in the
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of
Moscow State University, Mishchenko became a graduate student in the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of the same Faculty and graduated there in 1968 with
Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD). His PhD thesis K-теория на категории бесконечных комплексов (
K-theory on the
category of infinite
complexes) was supervised by
Sergei Novikov. In 1973 Mishchenko received his Russian
Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation) with thesis Гомотопические инварианты неодносвязных многообразий (Homotopy invariants of non-simply connected varieties). application of algebraic and functional methods in the theory of smooth
varieties with non-commutative geometry and topology, and applications of geometry and topology to mathematical modeling in ecology, molecular biology, bioinformatics. He has done some research on the history of mathematics, mathematical education, and the history of teaching mathematics. He is the author or coauthor of over 100 research articles. In 1970, he was an Invited Speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In 1971 he was awarded, jointly with
Victor Buchstaber, the
Moscow Mathematical Society Prize for research on the K-theory of infinite-dimensional CW-complexes. In 1996 Mischenko, jointly with
Anatoly Fomenko, was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology for a series of works involving investigation of invariants of smooth manifolds and Hamiltonian dynamical systems. In 2006 Mishchenko was awarded the title of Honored Professor of Moscow State University. ==Selected publications==