Boris Kushner (mathematician)

{{Short description|Russian mathematician, poet, and essayist (1941–2019)}}

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| name = Boris Kushner

| image = Boris Kushner August 2003.jpg

| caption = Kushner in 2003

| birth_name = Boris Abramovich Kushner

| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|12|10}}

| birth_place = Soviet Union

| alma_mater = Moscow State University

| occupation = Mathematician, professor

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|5|7|1941|12|10}}{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=boris-kushner&pid=192848466&fhid=4365|title=DR. BORIS KUSHNER|website=Legacy.com |access-date=December 20, 2019}}

| death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

}}

Boris Abramovich Kushner ({{langx|ru|Борис Абрамович Кушнер}}; December 10, 1941{{spaced en dash}}May 7, 2019) was a mathematician, poet and essayist. His primary contribution in mathematics was in the field of Constructive Mathematical Analysis and the Theory of Constructive Numbers and Functions. He has published several books of poetry (in Russian) and a number of music, literary, and political essays (Russian and English). Dr. Kushner taught at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.