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| Born | April 28, 1868 Zhuravki, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 20, 1908 (aged 40) Zhuravki, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Fields | continued fractions |
| Institutions | University of Warsaw |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Markov |
| Doctoral students | Wacław Sierpiński Boris Delaunay |
| Known for | Voronoi diagram |
Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (Russian: Георгий Феодосьевич Вороной, 28 April 1868–20 November 1908) was a famous Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent.[1] Among other things, he defined the Voronoi diagram.[2]
Voronoy was born in the village of Zhuravki, district of Pyriatin, in Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire.
From 1889 on Voronoy studied at Saint Petersburg University, where he was a student of Andrey Markov. In 1894 he promoted his master thesis, titled About algebraic integers depending on 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 promoted his doctoral thesis, titled About a generalisation 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).
In 2008 Ukraine released two-hryvnia coins commemorating the centenary of Voronoy's death.[3]
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References
- ^ Математики Украины
- ^ 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.
- ^ Национальный банк Украины ввел в оборот монету “Георгий Вороной”
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External links
- Georgy Voronoy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Georgy Voronoy", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Voronoy.html.
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