Zenon Borevich

Zenon Borevich
Born	Russian SFSR
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Dmitry Faddeev
Notable students	Sergei Vostokov

Zenon Ivanovich Borevich Зенон Иванович Боревич (7 November 1922 – 26 February 1995) was a Russian mathematician who worked on homological algebra, algebraic number theory, integral representations, and linear groups.

Biography

Zenon Borevich completed his master's thesis titled "Regarding the theory of local fields" in 1951 and his doctoral dissertation titled "Regarding the multiplicative groups of normal R-extensions of local fields" in 1967.

In 1968, Borevich became Professor of Mathematics at

. He became Dean of the university's entire Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in 1973 and remained in that position until 1984. He continued to head up Higher Algebra and Number Theory until his retirement in 1992.

Borevich authored more than 100 publications and works, including the textbook "Determinants and Matrices" and the monograph "Number Theory" (together with Shafarevich).

Publications

• Borevich, Z. I.;
  MR 0195803

References

• Yakovlev, A. (1999) [1997], "Zenon Ivanovich Borevich",
  MR 1754439

External links

• International Algebraic Conference dedicated to the memory of Z. I. Borevich