Nationality Russia Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Name Yuri Burago | |
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Institutions St. Petersburg State University Alma mater St. Petersburg State University Doctoral students Grigori Perelman
Anton Petrunin Education Saint Petersburg State University Books Geometric Inequalities, Isoperimetric Inequalities in the Theory of Surfaces of Bounded External Curvature Doctoral advisor Victor Zalgaller, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov Similar People Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Grigori Perelman, Vladimir Mazya | ||
Notable students Grigori Perelman | ||
Yuri Dmitrievich Burago (Russian: Ю́рий Дми́триевич Бура́го) (born 1936) is a Russian mathematician. He works in differential and convex geometry.
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Education and career
Burago studied at Leningrad University, where he obtained his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees. His advisors were Victor Zalgaller and Aleksandr Aleksandrov.
Burago is the head of the Laboratory of Geometry and Topology that is part of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He took part in a report for the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
Works
His other books and papers include:
Students
He has advised Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Burago was an advisor to Perelman during the latter's post-graduate research at St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics.