Andrei Zelevinsky

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Andrei Zelevinsky
Humboldt Prize (2004)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNortheastern University
Doctoral advisorsIsrael Gelfand
Alexandre Kirillov

Andrei Vladlenovich Zelevinsky (Андрей Владленович Зелевинский; 30 January 1953 – 10 April 2013)[1] was a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to algebra, combinatorics, and representation theory, among other areas.

Biography

Zelevinsky graduated in 1969 from the Moscow Mathematical School No. 2.[2] After winning a silver medal as a member of the USSR team at the International Mathematical Olympiad[3] he was admitted without examination to the mathematics department of Moscow State University where he obtained his PhD in 1978 under the mentorship of Joseph Bernstein, Alexandre Kirillov and Israel Gelfand.[4]

He worked[5] in the mathematical laboratory of Vladimir Keilis-Borok at the Institute of Earth Science (1977–85), and at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1985–90). In the early 1980s, at a great personal risk, he taught at the Jewish People's University,[6] an unofficial organization offering first-class mathematics education to talented students denied admission to Moscow State University's math department.

In 1990–91, Zelevinsky was a visiting professor at Cornell University, and from 1991 until his death was on faculty at Northeastern University, Boston. With his wife, Galina, he had a son and a daughter; he also had several grandchildren.[7]

Zelevinsky is a relative of the physicists Vladimir Zelevinsky and Tanya Zelevinsky.

Research

Zelevinsky's most notable achievement is the discovery (with Sergey Fomin) of cluster algebras. His other contributions include:

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ News on website for the commutative algebra community
  2. ^ "Medal-winning graduates of the Moscow Mathematical School No. 2". Archived from the original on 2013-06-15. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  3. ^ IMO Results
  4. ^ A. Zelevinsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  5. ^ A. Zelevinsky's cv Archived April 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ You failed your math test, comrade Einstein
  7. ^ Northeastern University, Math. Dep page Archived May 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Israel M. Gelfand, Mikhail M. Kapranov, Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Hypergeometric functions and toric varieties, (Russian) Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen. 23 (1989), no. 2, 12–26; translation in Funct. Anal. Appl. 23 (1989), no. 2, 94–10
  9. ^ Gelfand, Israel M.; Mikhail M. Kapranov; Andrei V. Zelevinsky (1994). Discriminants, resultants, and multidimensional determinants. Boston: Birkhäuser. .
  10. ^ Roberts, David P. (2009). "Review: Discriminants, Resultants, and Multidimensional Determinants, by I. M. Gelfand, M. M. Kapranov, and A. V. Zelevinsky". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 1 Jul 2020.
  11. ^ Section "Combinatorics" at ICM'98
  12. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  13. ^ Northeastern University, Academic Honors Convocation
  14. ^ 2018 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Discrete Mathematics/Logic to Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky

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