Elena Ivanovna Deza (, née Panteleeva; born 23 August 1961) is a French and Russian mathematician known for her books on
metric space
In mathematics, a metric space is a Set (mathematics), set together with a notion of ''distance'' between its Element (mathematics), elements, usually called point (geometry), points. The distance is measured by a function (mathematics), functi ...
s and
figurate number
The term figurate number is used by different writers for members of different sets of numbers, generalizing from triangular numbers to different shapes (polygonal numbers) and different dimensions (polyhedral numbers). The ancient Greek mathemat ...
s.
Education and career
Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in
Volgograd
Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...
, 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.
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.
Books
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)
*''Figurate Numbers'' (with Michel Deza, World Scientific, 2012)
*''Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts'' (with Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, World Scientific, 2016)
*''Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers'' (World Scientific, 2021)
References
External links
Home page*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deza, Elena
1961 births
Living people
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians