Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller 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.
V. A. Zalgaller, Rehovot, Israel, Sep. 2006
In geometry, a polyhedron is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
Convex polyhedron blocks on display at the Universum museum in Mexico City
Problem 14 of the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, on calculating the volume of a frustum
14-sided die from the Warring States period
Doppio ritratto, attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, depicting Luca Pacioli and a student studying a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water.