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 space
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s and
figurate number
The term figurate number is used by different writers for members of different sets of numbers, generalizing from triangular numbers to different shapes (polygonal numbers) and different dimensions (polyhedral numbers). The term can mean
* polygon ...
s.
Education and career
Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in
Volgograd
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...
, 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
Moscow State Pedagogical University or Moscow State University of Education is an educational and scientific institution in Moscow, Russia, with eighteen faculties and seven branches operational in other Russian cities. The institution had underg ...
.
From 1983 to 1988, Deza was an assistant professor of mathematics at
Moscow State Forest University Moscow State Forest University (russian: Московский государственный университет леса) (MSFU) is a specialized establishment of higher education which trains engineering personnel, scientists as well as bachelo ...
. 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.
Books
As well as many Russian-language books, Deza's books include:
*''Dictionary of Distances'' (with
Michel Deza
Michel Marie Deza (27 April 1939. – 23 November 2016) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. He was the retired director of research at the French National Centre for Scien ...
, Elsevier, 2006)
*''Encyclopedia of Distances'' (with Michel Deza, Springer, 2009; 4th ed., 2016)
*''Figurate Numbers'' (with Michel Deza, World Scientific, 2012)
*''Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts'' (with Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, World Scientific, 2016)
*''Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers'' (World Scientific, 2021)
References
External links
Home page*
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1961 births
Living people
Russian mathematicians
Women mathematicians