Joseph Liberman (1917 in
Henichesk
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– August 1941 in russian: Иосиф Меерович Либерман) was a Soviet mathematician, a student of
Aleksandrov, best known for
Liberman's lemma.
Biography
In 1936 he entered
Leningrad State University
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as one of the winners of the first city Mathematical Olimpiad.
He worked in geometry and real analysis. In 1938 he published his first paper. In 1939 he entered graduate school.
He served in the army since June 1941. He defended Ph.D. thesis in June 1941. At this time he was already lieutenant of Navy anti-aircraft warfare.
In August 1941 he was sent to
Tallinn
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,
Estonia
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where he died.
Three geometric papers of Liberman appeared in 1941 and another in 1943.
References
* ''Александров А. Д.'' Настоящие люди. Иосиф Либерман и Сергей Оловянишников /
Статьи разных лет — Новосибирск: Наука, 2008. — 804 с. — (Избранные труды; Т. 3). — С. 675—677.
** … // Проблемы науки и позиция ученого. — Л.: Наука, 1988. — С. 469—471.
* ''Александров А. Д.'
// Квант, 1982, № 11.
* ''Залгаллер В. А.'
Погибали лучшие// Санкт-Петербургский университет, № 1 (3690), 25 января 2005.
Liberman, Iosif Meerovich (1917–1941)
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1917 births
1941 deaths
Soviet mathematicians
Differential geometers
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Soviet military personnel killed in World War II