Gordana Todorov

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Gordana Todorov (born July 24, 1949) [1] is a mathematician working in noncommutative algebra, representation theory, Artin algebras, and cluster algebras. She is a professor of mathematics at Northeastern University. [2]

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Todorov earned her Ph.D. in 1978, at Brandeis University. Her dissertation, Almost Split Sequences in the Representation Theory of Certain Classes of Artin Algebras, was supervised by Maurice Auslander. [3]

Todorov is married to mathematician Kiyoshi Igusa. [4] The Igusa–Todorov functions [5] and Igusa–Todorov endomorphism algebras [6] are named for their joint work. Todorov is also the namesake of Todorov's theorem on preprojective partitions, [7] and the Gentle–Todorov theorem on abelian categories. [8]

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References

  1. Birthdate from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-04-05
  2. "Gordana Todorov", People, Northeastern College of Science, retrieved 2021-04-05
  3. Gordana Todorov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Yoshie Igusa, 1927 – 2019", Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2019 via Legacy.com
  5. Huard, François; Lanzilotta, Marcelo (2013), "Self-injective right Artinian rings and Igusa Todorov functions", Algebras and Representation Theory, 16 (3): 765–770, arXiv: 1101.1936 , doi:10.1007/s10468-011-9330-2, MR   3049670
  6. Wei, Jiaqun (2009), "Finitistic dimension and Igusa–Todorov algebras", Advances in Mathematics , 222 (6): 2215–2226, doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2009.07.008 , MR   2562782
  7. Coelho, Flávio Ulhoa (1990), "A generalization of Todorov's theorem on preprojective partitions", Communications in Algebra, 18 (5): 1401–1423, doi:10.1080/00927879008823972, MR   1059737
  8. Zhou, Panyue (2018), "A right triangulated version of Gentle-Todorov's theorem", Communications in Algebra, 46 (1): 82–89, doi:10.1080/00927872.2017.1310871, MR   3764845