Yuri Dmitrievich Burago

Yuri Dmitrievich Burago ( _ru. Юрий Дмитриевич Бураго) is a Russian mathematician. He works in differential and convex geometry.

Education & career

Burago studied at Leningrad University, where he obtained his Ph.D and Habilitation degrees. His advisors were Victor Zalgaller and A.D. Aleksandrov.

Burago is the current head of the Laboratory of Geometry and Topology that is part of the Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Institute. [ [http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/lab/geom-top/index.html Laboratory of Geometry and Topology] ] He took part in a report for the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union. [ [http://www.crdf.org/usr_doc/2001ProgramReport.pdf U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.] 2001 Program Report.]

Works

* cite book
last = Burago
first = Dmitri
coauthors = Yuri Burago and Sergei Ivanov
title = "A Course in Metric Geometry"
publisher = American Mathematical Society (publisher)
date = 2001-Jun-12
origdate=1984
pages = 417 pages
id = ISBN 0821821296 (2001 edition)
* cite book
last=Burago
first=Yuri
coauthors=Zalgaller, Victor
title="Geometric Inequalities"
date=1988-Feb
origdate=1980
others=Transl. from Russian by A.B. Sossinsky
publisher=Springer Verlag
id = ISBN 3540136150

His other books and papers include:
* "Geometry III: Theory of Surfaces" (1992)
* "Potential Theory and Function Theory for Irregular Regions" (1969)
* "Isoperimetric inequalities in the theory of surfaces of bounded external curvature" (1970) [http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca:2082/search/aBuppert,+Carolyn./abuppert+carolyn/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=aburago+iu+d+iurii+dmitrievich&1%2C6%2C Bibliography] ]

tudents

He has advised Grigory Perelman, who is widely believed to have solved the Poincare conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Burago was an advisor to Perelman during the latter's post-graduate research at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where Burago also worked with the mathematician and physicist A.D. Aleksandrov, another one of Perelman's advisors.Grigory Perelman. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 31 December 2006 UTC:14:05. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 31 December 2006.]

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