Boris Gershevich Moishezon (russian: Борис Гершевич Мойшезон) (October 26, 1937 – August 25, 1993) was a Soviet mathematician. He left the
Soviet Union
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in 1972 for
Tel Aviv
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, and in 1977 moved to
Columbia University
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, where he was a professor of mathematics until his death sixteen years later. He was a
Guggenheim Fellow
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in 1983.
A resident of
Leonia, New Jersey
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Teaneck, New Jersey
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on August 25, 1993, due to a
heart attack
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he suffered while jogging.
Selected publications
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Moishezon manifold In mathematics, a Moishezon manifold is a compact complex manifold such that the field of meromorphic functions on each component has transcendence degree equal the complex dimension of the component:
:\dim_\mathbfM=a(M)=\operatorname_\mathbf\mat ...