Yuri D. Burago at Oberwolfach in 2006. Photo courtesy MFO.

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

[edit] 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.^[1] He took part in a report for the United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.^[2]

[edit] Works

• Burago, Dmitri; Yuri Burago and Sergei Ivanov (2001-06-12). A Course in Metric Geometry. American Mathematical Society (publisher). p. 417 pages. ISBN 0821821296 (2001 edition). 
• Burago, Yuri; Zalgaller, Victor (1988-February). Geometric Inequalities. Transl. from Russian by A.B. Sossinsky. Springer Verlag. ISBN 3540136150. ^[3]

His other books and papers include:

• Geometry III: Theory of Surfaces (1992)^[3]
• Potential Theory and Function Theory for Irregular Regions (1969)^[3]
• Isoperimetric inequalities in the theory of surfaces of bounded external curvature (1970)^[3]

[edit] Students

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.^[4]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Laboratory of Geometry and Topology
2. ^ U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union. 2001 Program Report.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Bibliography
4. ^ Grigory Perelman. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 31 December 2006 UTC:14:05. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 31 December 2006.

[edit] External links

• Yuri Dmitrievich Burago at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Yuri Dmitrievich Burago in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection

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