Boris Tsirelson

Boris Tsirelson in 2005

Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson (May 4, 1950 – January 21, 2020) (Hebrew: בוריס סמיונוביץ' צירלסון, Russian: Борис Семёнович Цирельсон) was a Russian–Israeli mathematician. He was a Professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He was born in Leningrad. He was known for his discoveries: Tsirelson's bound, Tsirelson space, Tsirelson drift and Gaussian isoperimetric inequality.

Tsirelson, who had cancer, was euthanized on January 21, 2020 in Basel, Switzerland at the age of 69.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "The School of Mathematical Sciences mourns the death of our colleague, Professor Boris Tsirelson". February 25, 2020. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020.