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 spaces and figurate numbers.

Education and career

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Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in Volgograd, 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.[1]

From 1983 to 1988, Deza was an assistant professor of mathematics at Moscow State Forest University. 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.[1]

Books

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As well as many Russian-language books, Deza's books include:

  • Dictionary of Distances (with Michel Deza, Elsevier, 2006)
  • Encyclopedia of Distances (with Michel Deza, Springer, 2009; 4th ed., 2016)[2]
  • Figurate Numbers (with Michel Deza, World Scientific, 2012)[3]
  • Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts (with Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, World Scientific, 2016)[4]
  • Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers (World Scientific, 2021)

References

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  1. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2021-12-23
  2. ^ Reviews of Encyclopedia of Distances:
  3. ^ Reviews of Figurate Numbers:
  4. ^ Review of Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts:
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