Victor 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 program
Yuri Dmitrievich Burago is a Russian mathematician. He works in differential and convex geometry.
Victor Zalgaller
…of Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Leonid Kantorovich. He wrote joint monographs with both of them. His later monograph Geometric Inequalities (joint with Yuri Burago) is still the main reference in the field. Zalgaller lived in Saint Petersburg most of his life, having studied and worked at the Leningrad State…
Yuri D. Burago at Oberwolfach in 2006. Photo courtesy MFO.