Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev

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Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev
Born(1927-01-27)January 27, 1927
DiedNovember 1, 1997(1997-11-01) (aged 70)
Education University of Leningrad
Scientific career
Institutions University of Kishinev (Chișinău)
Academic advisors A.D. Aleksandrov

Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev (Russian : Александр Михайлович Заморзаев; 27 January 1927 – 1 November 1997) was a Soviet mathematician and crystallographer. In 1953 Zamorzaev was the first to derive the complete list of magnetic space groups (Shubnikov groups). [1] [2] [3] In 1957 Zamorzaev founded the field of generalised antisymmetry by introducing the concept of more than one kind of two-valued antisymmetry operation. [4]

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Life

Career

Zamorzaev was born on 23 January 1927 in Leningrad. In 1953 at the University of Leningrad, under the supervision of A.D. Aleksandrov, he gained the M.A. degree with the dissertation Generalization of Fedorov groups, in which he developed the general theory of antisymmetry. In this work he derived for the first time the 1651 antisymmetry space groups, and named them "Shubnikov groups", after A.V. Shubnikov the pioneer of antisymmetry. [5]

In 1953 he became a mathematics lecturer at the newly opened University of Kishinev (Chișinău). Besides teaching the regular mathematics curriculum, and supervising graduate students, Zamorzaev devised and taught new courses in the areas of discrete geometry, theoretical crystallography, and antisymmetry and its generalisations.

In 1971 he gained his doctoral degree with a thesis entitled Theory of Antisymmetry and its Different Generalizations. The thesis was based on his new theories of geometry and mathematical crystallography, 1) multiple antisymmetry; [6] 2) similarity and conformal symmetry; [7] and 3) P-symmetry, [8] including generalisations of A. V. Shubnikov's antisymmetry and N. V. Belov's color symmetry. [9]

In 1973 a department of higher geometry was established within the university and Zamorzaev was appointed as professor and head of the department. [10] A history of the personnel and achievements of Zamorzaev's school of geometry is available online. [11]

Works

The majority of Zamorzaev's works were published in Russian. Books published by Zamorzaev:

Zamorzaev published 110 papers. Selected papers available in English:

Honours and awards

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References

  1. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. (1953). Generalization of Fedorov groups, Master's dissertation, Leningrad State University (in Russian)
  2. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. (1957). Generalization of Fedorov groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 2, 10-15
  3. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. (1963). On the 1651 Shubnikov groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 7, 661-668
  4. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. and Sokolov, E.I. (1957). Symmetry and various kinds of antisymmetry of finite bodies, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 2, 5-9
  5. ↑ Palistrant, A.F. and Jablan, S.V. (1997). Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev , Filomat (Nis), 11, 157-159
  6. 1 2 Zamorzaev A.M. (1976). Theory of simple and multiple antisymmetry. Chisinau: Stiintza, 283 p. (in Russian)
  7. 1 2 Zamorzaev, A.M. (1964). Similarity symmetric and antisymmetric groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 8, 553-558
  8. 1 2 Zamorzaev A.M., Karpova Yu.S., Lungu A.P. and Palistrant A.F. (1986). P-symmetry and its further development. Chisinau: Stiintsa, 156 p. (in Russian)
  9. ↑ Palistrant, A.F. and Jablan, S.V. (2008). A. M. Zamorzaev (1927-1997) , IUCr Newsletter, 6(4)
  10. ↑ Unsigned obituary (1998). Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev, Cryst. Reports, 43, 530-531
  11. ↑ Palistrant, A.F. (2002). Professor A. M. Zamorzaev (1927-1997) and Kishinev school of discrete geometry , Vismath, 4(1)
  12. ↑ Zamorzaev A.M. and Palistrant A.F. (1977). Theory of discrete symmetry groups. Chisinau: Izd-vo KSU, 101 p. (in Russian)
  13. ↑ Zamorzaev A.M., Galyarsky E.I. and Palistrant A.F. (1978). Color symmetry, its generalizations and applications. Chisinau: Styintsa, 275 p. (in Russian)
  14. ↑ Zamorzaev A.M., Karpova Yu.S., Lungu A.P. and Palistrant A.F. (1986). P-symmetry and its further development. Chisinau: Stiintsa, 156 p. (in Russian)
  15. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. (1969). Color-symmetry space groups, Sov. Phys. Cryst., 14, 155-159
  16. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. and Palistrant, A.F. (1980). Antisymmetry, its generalizations and geometrical applications, Z. Krist., 151, 231-248, doi : 10.1524/zkri.1980.151.3-4.231
  17. ↑ Zamorzaev, A.M. (1988). "Generalized antisymmetry" (PDF). Comput. Math. Applic. 16 (5–8): 555–562. doi: 10.1016/0898-1221(88)90245-3 .


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