Elena Ivanovna Deza ( Russian: Елена Ивановна Деза, née Panteleeva; born 23 August 1961) is a French and Russian mathematician known for her books on metric spaces and figurate numbers.
Education and career
Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in Volgograd, and is a French and Russian citizen. She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1983, a candidate's degree (doctorate) in mathematics and physics in 1993, and a docent's certificate in number theory in 1995, all from Moscow State Pedagogical University. [1]
From 1983 to 1988, Deza was an assistant professor of mathematics at Moscow State Forest University. In 1988 she moved to Moscow State Pedagogical University; she became a lecturer there in 1993, a reader in 1994, and a full professor in 2006. [1]
Books
As well as many Russian-language books, Deza's books include:
- Dictionary of Distances (with Michel Deza, Elsevier, 2006)
- Encyclopedia of Distances (with Michel Deza, Springer, 2009; 4th ed., 2016) [2]
- Figurate Numbers (with Michel Deza, World Scientific, 2012) [3]
- Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts (with Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, World Scientific, 2016) [4]
- Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers (World Scientific, 2021)
References
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2021-12-23
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^ Reviews of Encyclopedia of Distances:
- Adhemar Bultheel, EMS Reviews, [1]
- Gertraud Ehrig, Zbl 1167.51001, Zbl 1259.51001, Zbl 1301.51001
- Clari Gosling, Reference Reviews, doi: 10.1108/09504121011067175
- Igor Rivin, MR 2538177
- Bill Wood, MAA Reviews, [2]
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^ Reviews of Figurate Numbers:
- Russell Jay Hendel, MAA Reviews, [3]
- Herman J. Tiersma, Zbl 1258.11001
- Maxim Vsemirnov, MR 2895686
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^ Review of Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts:
- Robert Dawson, Zbl 1362.51001
External links
- Home page
- Elena Deza publications indexed by Google Scholar
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