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

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, 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

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). A professor in both the Moscow State University and the

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, Gusein-Zade also serves as co-editor-in-chief for the ''

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''. He shares credit with

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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