Victor Zalgaller
Victor Zalgaller | |
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Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер | |
Russian SFSR | |
| Died | 2 October 2020 (aged 99) |
| Occupation(s) | mathematician, teacher |
Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller (
isoperimetry, and differential geometry
.
Biography
Zalgaller was born in
Leningrad, and in 1945 marched into Germany.[2]
He worked as a teacher at the Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239,[3] and received his 1963[4] doctoral dissertation on polyhedra with the aid of his high school students who wrote the computer programs for the calculation.[3]
Zalgaller did his early work under direction of
Yu. Burago
) is still the main reference in the field.
Zalgaller lived in
Leningrad State University and the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
(Saint Petersburg branch).
In 1999, he immigrated to Israel. Zalgaller died on 2 October 2020 at the age of 99.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victor Zalgaller.
- ^ "Виктор Залгаллер (Израиль)". Vestnik (in Russian). Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Life Begins at 80". Weizmann Institute of Science. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "Скончался В.А.Залгаллер". Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 (in Russian). Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Victor Abramovich Zalgaller". Math Genealogy. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- V. A. Aleksandrov, et al. Viktor Abramovich Zalgaller (on his 80th birthday), Russian Mathematical Surveys, Vol. 56 (2001), 1013–1014 (see here for a Russian version).
- Yu. D. Burago, et al. Viktor Abramovich Zalgaller (on his 80th birthday), J. Math. Sci. (N. Y.) J. Math. Sci. (N.Y.) Vol. 119 (2004), 129–132 (see here for a Russian version).
- M. Z. Solomyak, A few words about Viktor Abramovich Zalgaller, J. Math. Sci. (N.Y.) Vol. 119 (2004), 138–140.
- S. S. Kutateladze, A Tribute to the Philanthropist and Geometer.
- List of papers of V. A. Zalgaller, available here (mostly in Russian).
- Zalgaller, Victor; Burago, Yuri (February 1988). Geometric Inequalities. ISBN 3-540-13615-0.
External links
- Victor Zalgaller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Intrinsic Geometry of Surfaces — book by A.D Alexandrov and V.A. Zalgaller (AMS Online Book, originally translated in 1967).
- Personal war memoir (in Russian).
- Lecture read in 1999 in St.Petersburg, Russia (video, in Russian)
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