Georgy Voronoy
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Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (Russian: Георгий Феодосьевич Вороной, 28 April 1868 – 20 November 1908) was a famous Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent. Among other things, he defined the Voronoi diagram.[1]
Voronoy was born in the village of Zhuravki, district of Pyriatin, in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
From 1889 on Voronoy studied at Saint Petersburg University, where he was a student of Andrey Markov. In 1894 he defended his master thesis, titled "About integral algebraic numbers depending from the roots of an equation of third degree". In the same year Voronoy became professor at the University of Warsaw, where he worked on continued fractions. In 1897 he defended his doctoral thesis, titled "About a generalization of a continuous fraction".
Voronoy died after a severe disease in his home village, on November 20, 1908.
Among his students were Boris Delaunay (Ph.D. at Kiev University), and Wacław Sierpiński (Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University in 1906).
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Georgy Voronoy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Georgy Voronoy”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
[edit] References
- ^ G.F. Voronoi (1908). "Nouvelles applications des paramètres continus à la théorie de formes quadratiques". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 134: 198–287.
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