Georgy Feodosievich Voronoi ( April 16 [28], 1868 - November 7 [20], 1908 ) is a well-known Russian mathematician . Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences since December 1, 1907.
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| Place of Birth | village Zhuravka , Prilutsk Uyezd , Poltava Province , Russian Empire |
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| Scientific field | mathematician |
| Place of work | University of Warsaw |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University |
| Academic degree | Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences (1897) |
| supervisor | Andrey Andreevich Markov (senior) |
| Famous students | Vaclav Sierpinski |
| Awards and prizes | Prize named after V. Ya. Bunyakovsky |
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Biography
He was born in the family of the professor of Russian literature of the Nezhin Law Lyceum , the initiator of the creation of free weekly schools for working youth in Kiev Theodosius Yakovlevich Voronoi [3] .
Since 1889, he studied at St. Petersburg University with A. A. Markov . In 1894 he defended his master's thesis "On integers depending on the root of the equation of the third degree . " In the same year he was elected professor at the University of Warsaw , where he was engaged in the study of continued fractions . Voronoi’s pupil was Vaclav Sierpinski .
In 1897, Voronoi defended his doctoral dissertation "On a generalization of the algorithm for continued fractions" , awarded the V. Ya. Bunyakovsky Prize . After that, he worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of Warsaw .
He participated in the II World Congress of Mathematicians , chaired by Hilbert .
The author of six large articles [ what? ] . Two of them (publicly available) in French are published in three issues in the German Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics:
- Sur un problème du calcul des fonctions asymptotiques. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 126; 241-282, 1903.
- Nouvelles applications des paramètres continus à la théorie des formes quadratiques. Deuxième mémoire. Recherches sur les parallélloèdres primitifs. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 134; 198-287, 1908. This is the introduction and the first part of the article.
- Nouvelles applications des paramètres continus à la théorie des formes quadratiques. Deuxième mémoire. Recherches sur les parallélloèdres primitifs. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 136; 67-182, 1909. This is the second part of the article.
Died in Warsaw from gallstone disease [4] .
Memory
In honor of Voronoi, the Voronoi diagram used in computer science is named [5] .
Voronoi’s parallelohedron theorem: every primitive parallelohedron is affinely equivalent to a DV region of some lattice .
Voronoi created new scientific directions in number theory, algebra, and geometry; in particular, he laid the foundations of number geometry. The results of his scientific work are used in crystallography, computer science, physics, electronics, astronomy, astrophysics, chemistry, chemical engineering, microbiology, ophthalmology, as well as in solving problems of artificial intelligence. Wherever there is a need for stratification of space in an optimal way, in a certain sense, into individual cells. Austrian mathematicians Eichholzer and Aurengammer wrote at one time: "Voronoi diagrams began to be used everywhere in the construction of geometric algorithms. A significant percentage of articles on computational geometry are directly or indirectly related to Voronoi diagrams." [6]
Family
Wife Olga Pavlovna Kritskaya, daughter of P. M. Kritsky , a military leader.
Daughter-in-law Vera I. Nechaevskaya is a Ukrainian writer and public figure, a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada from the Ukrainian Women's Union.
Son - Yuri Yuryevich Voronoi - a Soviet doctor, in 1933, for the first time in the world, transplanted a cadaveric kidney to a person.
Notes
- ↑ Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ Voronoi Georgy Feodosievich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Theodosius Yakovlevich Voronoi served as professor of Russian literature at the Nezhin Lyceum in the period 1864-1872.
- ↑ John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Voronoi, Georgy Feodosievich (Eng.) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- ↑ GF Voronoi (1908). Nouvelles applications des paramètres continus à la théorie de formes quadratiques. J. Reine Angew. Math. 134: 198-287.
- ↑ Igor Sharov. Vcheny Ukrainy: 100 prominent names. - K .: Artek, 2006. ISBN 966-505-054-0 (Ukrainian)
Links
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Voronoi, Georgy Feodosievich (Eng.) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- Profile of George Feodosievich Voronoi on the official website of the RAS