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Yuri Burago

Russian mathematician (born 1936)

Summary

Russian mathematician (born 1936)

Field	Value
name	Yuri Burago
image	Yuri Burago.jpg
image_size	250px
caption	Yuri D. Burago at Oberwolfach in 2006. Photo courtesy MFO.
birth_date	21 June 1936
nationality	Russian
fields	Mathematics
workplaces	St. Petersburg State University
alma_mater	St. Petersburg State University
doctoral_advisor	Victor Zalgaller
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
doctoral_students	Sergei Ivanov
Grigori Perelman
awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (2014)

Aleksandr Aleksandrov Grigori Perelman Yuri Dmitrievich Burago (; 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. He took part in a report for the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

Books

Burago is the author of:

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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

References

(n.d.). "The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS".
"Персоналии: Бураго Юрий Дмитриевич".
[https://www.pdmi.ras.ru/eng/labs/topologie.php Laboratory of Geometry and Topology]
[http://www.crdf.org/usr_doc/2001ProgramReport.pdf U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union] {{webarchive. link. (December 7, 2006 . 2001 Program Report.)

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