Boris Weisfeiler
Boris Weisfeiler (born 19 April 1941 – disappeared 4–5 January 1985) was a Soviet-born mathematician and professor at Penn State University who lived in the United States before disappearing in Chile in 1985. Declassified US documents suggest a Chilean army patrol seized Weisfeiler and took him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive Germanic agricultural commune set up in Chile in the 1960s. During the Chilean Pinochet military dictatorship Boris Weisfeiler allegedly drowned. He is known for the Weisfeiler filtration, Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm and Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures.
Boris Yulievich Weisfeiler | |
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| Born | April 19, 1941 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Disappeared | January 1985 San Fabián de Alico, Chile |
| Status | Missing for 39 years, 3 months and 8 days |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Ph.D.) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Some properties of anisotropic algebraic groups (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Èrnest Borisovich Vinberg |
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