05-13-2020, 12:43 AM
Any mathematicians out there? This fellow sounds important, but outside my area of knowledge:
Ernest Borisovich Vinberg (Russian: Эрнест Борисович Винберг; 26 July 1937 – 12 May 2020)[1] was a Russian mathematician, who worked on discrete subgroups of Lie groups and representation theory. He introduced Vinberg's algorithm and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem.
He was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize. He was on the executive committee of the Moscow Mathematical Society. In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker with a talk on Discrete reflection groups in Lobachevsky spaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw. In 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His doctoral students include Victor Kac and Boris Weisfeiler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Vinberg
Ernest Borisovich Vinberg (Russian: Эрнест Борисович Винберг; 26 July 1937 – 12 May 2020)[1] was a Russian mathematician, who worked on discrete subgroups of Lie groups and representation theory. He introduced Vinberg's algorithm and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem.
He was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize. He was on the executive committee of the Moscow Mathematical Society. In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker with a talk on Discrete reflection groups in Lobachevsky spaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw. In 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His doctoral students include Victor Kac and Boris Weisfeiler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Vinberg
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