Boris Borissowitsch Wenkow

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Boris Borissowitsch Wenkow ( Russian Борис Борисович Венков , English transcription Boris Borisovich Venkov ; born November 15, 1934 , † November 10, 2011 ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with grids, spherical designs and modular shapes.

Boris Venkov, Oberwolfach 2005

Wenkow was the son of the mathematics professor in Leningrad Boris Alexejewitsch Wenkow . He studied at the Leningrad State University , where he received his doctorate under Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Faddejew . He was at the Steklow Institute in Saint Petersburg, but held many visiting professorships. Among other things, he was visiting professor in Aachen (1994, and from 1996), Bonn (1989), Cambridge (1989), Geneva (1992 and regularly every year since 1997), Lyon (1993), Paris (1994), Berlin (1995 / 96), Grenoble (1995, 1998), Fukuoka (2002), Bordeaux (1997), Kyoto (2006), the Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of Havana and the Tata Institute in Bombay.

He published with Gabriele Nebe and Helmut Koch , among others .

In 1963 he received the Leningrad Mathematical Society Prize .

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project