Mikhail Anatolyevich Zfasman

Michail Anatoljewitsch Zfasman ( Russian Михаил Анатольевич Цфасман ; English transcription Michael Tsfasman; born July 23, 1954 in Moscow ) is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist.

Zfasman attended Moscow Mathematical Gymnasium No. 2 and was runner-up in the 1971 Mathematics Olympiad. From 1971 he studied at the Lomonosov University with Igor Schafarewitsch and Parschin , where he graduated in 1976 (with Bogomolow as a reviewer). He then worked as a mathematician and computer engineer at the Institute for Electricity and Energy in Moscow until 1979. In 1983 he received his doctorate under Yuri Manin at the Steklow Institute in Leningrad ( rational points on algebraic curves and surfaces ). From 1983 to 1985 he was a scientist at the Institute for Problems of Design in Moscow and then until 1988 head of the mathematics department of the Institute for the Development of the City of Moscow. From 1988 he worked on his habilitation at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission (IPPI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, which took place in 1991 at VI Levenshtein and others ( Global Fields, Error-Correcting Codes and Sphere Packings ). Since 1990 he has been chief scientist in the Dobrushin laboratory. Since 1998 he has also been Professor and Vice-President of the Independent University of Moscow and since 2001 Research Director of the CNRS at the Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy near Marseille . He was visiting scholar at the University of Paris VII , the Danish Technical University in Lyngby , Harvard University , the University of Essen , the University of Michigan , the Technical University of Eindhoven and the University of Amsterdam .

Zfasman is concerned with algebraic geometry (with applications in number theory ) and coding theory (and in this context with lattices and packing of spheres). He is known for developing error-correcting codes from algebraic geometry, about which he has written several books.

In 1984 he received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Group. Since 2002 he has been editor of the Moscow Mathematics Journal and the translation of Jean-Pierre Serre's collected works into Russian.

Fonts

• with BE Kunyavskii, AN Skorobogatov: Del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree Four , Memoires SMF 1989
• with SG Vladuts: Algebraic Geometric Codes , Kluwer 1991
• with VV Ostrik: Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory: Rational and Elliptic Curves , IUM-MCCME (Independent University Moscow), Moscow 2001 (Russian)
• with Vladuts, D. Yu. Nogin: Algebraic Geometry Codes: Basic Notions , IUM-MCCME, Moscow 2003 (Russian)
• Editor with Henning Stichtenoth : Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry , Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Volume 1518, 1992
• Editor of the special edition on Algebro-Geometric Codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 41, 1995, Issue 6

Web links

• Homepage
• Tsfasman at mathnet