Georgy Voronoy
| Georgy Voronoy | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
28 April 1868 Zhuravka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
20 November 1908 (aged 40) Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University |
| Known for |
Voronoi diagram (Voronoy tesselation) Voronoi iteration Voronoi formula |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | continued fractions |
| Institutions | University of Warsaw |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Markov |
| Doctoral students |
Wacław Sierpiński Boris Delaunay |
Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (Ukrainian: Георгій Феодосійович Вороний; Russian: Гео́ргий Феодо́сьевич Вороно́й; 28 April 1868 – 20 November 1908) was a mathematician noted for defining the Voronoi diagram.[1]
Biography[edit]
Voronoy was born in the village of Zhuravka, district of Pyriatyn, in Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Varva Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine).
From 1889, Voronoy studied at Saint Petersburg University, where he was a student of Andrey Markov. In 1894 he defended his master's thesis On algebraic integers depending on the roots of an equation of third degree. In the same year, Voronoy became a professor at the University of Warsaw, where he worked on continued fractions. In 1897, he defended his doctoral thesis On a generalisation of a continuous fraction. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1904 at Heidelberg.[2]
Following a severe illness, Voronoy died on November 20, 1908.
Among his students was Wacław Sierpiński (Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University in 1906). Although he was not formally the doctoral advisor of Boris Delaunay (Ph.D. at Kiev University), his influence on the latter earns him the right to be considered so. [3]
In 2008 Ukraine released two-hryvnia coins commemorating the centenary of Voronoy's death.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Sur une propriété du discriminant des fonctions entières par G. Voronoi". Verhandlungen des dritten Mathematiker-Kongresses in Heidelberg von 8. bis 13. August 1904. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1905. pp. 186–189.
- ^ Liebling, Thomas; Pournin, Lionel (2012). "Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations: ubiquitous Siamese twins" (PDF). Optimization Stories. Documenta Mathematica. Extra Volume ISMP. pp. 419–431. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09.
- ^ Национальный банк Украины ввел в оборот монету “Георгий Вороной” Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine.
Further reading[edit]
- Syta, Halyna; van de Weygaert, Rien (2009). "Life and Times of Georgy Voronoi". arXiv:0912.3269
. Bibcode:2009arXiv0912.3269S..
External links[edit]
- 19th-century mathematicians
- 20th-century mathematicians
- People from Varva Raion
- Ukrainian mathematicians
- Imperial Russian mathematicians
- Russian mathematicians
- University of Warsaw faculty
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- 1868 births
- 1908 deaths
