Victor Zalgaller | |
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Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер | |
![]() V. A. Zalgaller, Rehovot, Israel, Sep. 2006 | |
Born | Victor Abramovich Zalgaller 25 December 1920 |
Died | 2 October 2020 | (aged 99)
Nationality | Russian-Israeli |
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, teacher |
Known for | Convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, differential geometry |
Notable work | Geometric Inequalities (with Yu. Burago) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Leningrad State University, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 |
Doctoral advisor | A. D. Alexandrov, Leonid Kantorovich |
Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller (Hebrew: ויקטור אבּרמוביץ' זלגלר; Russian: Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер; 25 December 1920 – 2 October 2020) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for the results he achieved on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry.