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Sabir Medgidovich Gusein-Zade (russian: Сабир Меджидович Гусейн-Заде; born 29 July 1950 in
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mathematician and a specialist in
singularity theory In mathematics, singularity theory studies spaces that are almost manifolds, but not quite. A string can serve as an example of a one-dimensional manifold, if one neglects its thickness. A singularity can be made by balling it up, dropping it ...
and its applications.. He studied at
Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1975 under the joint supervision of Sergei Novikov and
Vladimir Arnold Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, russian: link=no, Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov– ...
. Before entering the university, he had earned a gold medal at the
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. Gusein-Zade co-authored with V. I. Arnold and A. N. Varchenko the textbook ''Singularities of Differentiable Maps'' (published in English by
Birkhäuser Birkhäuser was a Swiss publisher founded in 1879 by Emil Birkhäuser. It was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 1985. Today it is an imprint used by two companies in unrelated fields: * Springer continues to publish science (particu ...
). A professor in both the Moscow State University and the
Independent University of Moscow The Independent University of Moscow (IUM) (russian: Независимый Московский Университет (НМУ)) is an educational organisation with rather informal status located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1991 by a g ...
, Gusein-Zade also serves as co-editor-in-chief for the ''
Moscow Mathematical Journal The ''Moscow Mathematical Journal'' (MMJ) is a mathematics journal published quarterly by the Independent University of Moscow and the HSE Faculty of Mathematics and distributed by the American Mathematical Society. The journal published its first ...
''. He shares credit with
Norbert A'Campo Norbert A'Campo (born 1941) is a Swiss mathematician working on singularity theory. He earned a doctorate in 1972 from the University of Paris-Sud. In 1974 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, and in 1988 he ...
for results on the singularities of plane curves.


Selected publications

*S. M. Gusein-Zade.
Dynkin diagrams for singularities of functions of two variables
. ''Functional Analysis and Its Applications'', 1974, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp. 295–300. *S. M. Gusein-Zade.
Intersection matrices for certain singularities of functions of two variables
. ''Functional Analysis and Its Applications'', 1974, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 10–13. *A. Campillo, F. Delgado, and S. M. Gusein-Zade.
The Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity via the ring of functions on it
. ''Duke Mathematical Journal'', 2003, Volume 117, Number 1, pp. 125–156. *S. M. Gusein-Zade.
The problem of choice and the optimal stopping rule for a sequence of independent trials
. ''Theory of Probability & Its Applications'', 1965, Volume 11, Number 3, pp. 472–476. *S. M. Gusein-Zade.
A new technique for constructing continuous cartograms
. ''Cartography and Geographic Information Systems'', 1993, Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 167–173.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gusein-Zade, Sabir Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 1950 births 21st-century Russian mathematicians Differential geometers International Mathematical Olympiad participants Moscow State University alumni Moscow State University faculty Independent University of Moscow faculty Mathematicians from Moscow