Victor Zalgaller | |
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Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер | |
 V. A. Zalgaller, Rehovot, Israel, Sep. 2006 | |
| Born | Victor Abramovich Zalgaller 25 December 1920 |
| Died | 2 October 2020 (aged 99) |
| Nationality | Russian-Israeli |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematician, teacher |
| Known for | Convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, differential geometry |
| Notable work | Geometric Inequalities (with Yu. Burago) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Leningrad State University, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 |
| Doctoral advisor | A. D. Alexandrov, Leonid Kantorovich |
Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller (Hebrew: ויקטור אבּרמוביץ' זלגלר; Russian: Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер; 25 December 1920 – 2 October 2020) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for the results he achieved on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry.