Joseph Liberman

Joseph Liberman (1917 in Henichesk – August 1941 in Russian: Иосиф Меерович Либерман) was a Soviet mathematician, a student of Aleksandrov, best known for Liberman's lemma.

This article is about the Soviet mathematician. For the former United States Senator, see Joe Lieberman.

Biography

In 1936 he entered Leningrad State University 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, Estonia where he died.

Three geometric papers of Liberman appeared in 1941 and another in 1943.

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gollark: Now yes, you can blame them for not being 1337 alpha programmers, or for using the wrong thing, but really it's partly a failing of C.
gollark: It makes it very easy to be unsafe, which I think should really be avoided, and yet people keep using it for stuff which really needs to not be unsafe.
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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. Тупость и гений // 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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