Ernest Vinberg

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Ernest Vinberg

| image = VinbergEB-wiki-1.jpg

| caption = Vinberg in 2001

| birth_name = Ernest Borisovich Vinberg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|7|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian RSFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|5|12|1937|7|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| alma_mater = Moscow State University

| known_for = Vinberg's algorithm
Koecher–Vinberg theorem

| awards = Moscow Mathematical Society Prize {{small|(1963)}}
Humboldt Prize {{small|(1997)}}
Life Dedicated to Mathematics {{small|(2014)}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dynastyfdn.com/news/1237|title=Названы лауреаты премии "Жизнь, посвященная математике"|publisher=Dynasty Foundation|date=30 December 2014|language=ru|accessdate=2015-03-12|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014603/http://www.dynastyfdn.com/news/1237|archivedate=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}}

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = Moscow State University

| doctoral_advisor = Eugene Dynkin
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

| doctoral_students = Victor Kac
Ivan Losev
Boris Weisfeiler

}}

Ernest Borisovich Vinberg ({{langx|ru|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.

He was a recipient of the 1997 Humboldt Prize.{{cite web|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_hn_query.humboldtianer_details?p_lang=en&p_externe_id=7000146451|title=Prof. Dr. Ernest Borisovich Vinberg|work=humboldt-foundation.de|publisher=Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|accessdate=2020-06-09}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/ernest-borisovich-vinberg|title=Ernest Borisovich Vinberg|work=amacad.org|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=2020-06-09}}

Ernest Vinberg died from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 on 12 May 2020.{{cite web|last=Semyonov |first=Kirill|url=https://math.msu.ru/node/1370 |title=Скончался Э.Б.Винберг |work=math.msu.ru|publisher=MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics|date=12 May 2020 |accessdate=2020-06-09|language=ru}}{{cite web | url = https://nplus1.ru/blog/2020/05/15/vinberg | title = В калейдоскопе | work = N + 1 | date = 15 May 2020 |accessdate=4 June 2020|language=ru}}

Selected publications

{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ti4f1BFsn0C |title=Linear Representations of Groups |series=Basler Lehrbücher|volume=2 |translator=A. Iacob|publisher=Birkhäuser |year=1989|isbn=3-7643-2288-8}}{{cite web|last=Berg|first=Michael|date=21 February 2011|title=Review of Linear Representations of Groups by Ernest B. Vinberg|website=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/linear-representation-of-groups|accessdate=2020-06-09}}
{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd24d3mwaecC |title=A Course in Algebra|series=Graduate Studies in Mathematics|volume=56|translator=Alexander Retakh|publisher=American Mathematical Society|year=2003|isbn=0-8218-3413-4}}
editor and co-author: {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4BxrvgAACAAJ |title=Lie Groups and Invariant Theory|series=Advances in the Mathematical Sciences|volume=56|publisher=American Mathematical Society|year=2005|isbn=0-8218-3733-8}} (contains Construction of the exceptional simple Lie algebras)
with A. L. Onishchik: {{cite book|title=Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups |series=Springer Series in Soviet Mathematics|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1990|isbn=978-0-387-50614-2}} [https://books.google.com/books/about/Lie_Groups_and_Algebraic_Groups.html?id=TV7sCAAAQBAJ 2012 pbk edition]
with V. V. Gorbatsevich, A. L. Onishchik: {{cite book|title=Foundations of Lie Theory and Lie Transformation Groups|translator=A. Kozlowski|publisher=Springer |year=1997|isbn=978-3-642-57999-8}}
{{cite journal|title=Hyperbolic reflection groups|journal=Russian Mathematical Surveys|volume=40|number=1|date=28 February 1985|pages=31–75|doi=10.1070/RM1985v040n01ABEH003527|last1=Vinberg|first1=E. B.|bibcode=1985RuMaS..40...31V|s2cid=250912767 }}
(ed.) {{cite book|title=Geometry II: Spaces of Constant Curvature |series=Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences|volume=29 |publisher=Springer |year=1993|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-02901-5|isbn=978-3-642-08086-9 }} (contains: Vinberg et alia: [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-02901-5_1 Geometry of spaces of constant curvature], [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-02901-5_2 Discrete groups of motions of spaces of constant curvature])

References

External links

{{MathGenealogy |id=45083}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080619032019/http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/EN/programme/preise/pt.htm Humboldt Research Award]
[https://www.ams.org/distribution/mmj/vol8-4-2008/vinberg-birthday.html Ernest Borisovich Vinberg], Moscow Mathematical Journal

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Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Category:Moscow State University alumni

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