Yuri Burago
Yuri D. Burago at Oberwolfach in 2006. Photo courtesy MFO.
Born21 June 1936
NationalityRussian
Alma materSt. Petersburg State University
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (2014)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSt. Petersburg State University
Doctoral advisorVictor Zalgaller
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Doctoral studentsSergei Ivanov
Grigori Perelman

Yuri Dmitrievich Burago (Russian: Ю́рий Дми́триевич Бура́го; born 21 June 1936) is a Russian mathematician. He works in differential and convex geometry.

Education and career

Burago studied at Leningrad University, where he obtained his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees. His advisors were Victor Zalgaller and Aleksandr Aleksandrov.

Yuri is a creator (with his students Perelman and Petrunin, and M. Gromov) of what is known now as Alexandrov Geometry. Also brought geometric inequalities to the state of art.

Burago is the head of the Laboratory of Geometry and Topology that is part of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics.[2] He took part in a report for the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.[3]

Works

His other books and papers include:

Students

He has advised Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Burago was an advisor to Perelman during the latter's post-graduate research at St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS". n.d. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ Laboratory of Geometry and Topology
  3. ^ U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union Archived December 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. 2001 Program Report.
  4. ^ a b c d Bibliography

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