Ernest Vinberg
Ernest Borisovich Vinberg (Russian: Эрне́ст Бори́сович Ви́нберг; 26 July 1937 – 12 May 2020) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, who worked on Lie groups and algebraic groups, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, invariant theory, and representation theory. He introduced Vinberg's algorithm and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem.
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Vinberg in 2001 | |
| Born | Ernest Borisovich Vinberg 26 July 1937 Moscow, Russian RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 12 May 2020 (aged 82) Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Vinberg's algorithm Koecher–Vinberg theorem |
| Awards | Moscow Mathematical Society Prize (1963) Humboldt Prize (1997) Life Dedicated to Mathematics (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene Dynkin Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro |
| Doctoral students | Victor Kac Ivan Losev Boris Weisfeiler |
He was a recipient of the 1997 Humboldt Prize. He was on the executive committee of the Moscow Mathematical Society. In 1983, he was an Invited Speaker with a talk on Discrete reflection groups in Lobachevsky spaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw. In 2010, he was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ernest Vinberg died from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 on 12 May 2020.