Boris Moishezon

Boris Gershevich Moishezon (Russian: Борис Гершевич Мойшезон) (October 26, 1937 – August 25, 1993) was a Soviet mathematician. He left the Soviet Union in 1972 for Tel Aviv, and in 1977 moved to Columbia University, where he was a professor of mathematics until his death sixteen years later. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983.

A resident of Leonia, New Jersey, Moishezon died at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey on August 25, 1993, due to a heart attack he suffered while jogging.^[1]

Selected publications

Books

Complex surfaces and connected sums of complex projective planes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 603. Springer Verlag. 1977.

Articles

Mandelbaum, Richard; Moishezon, Boris (1976). "On the topological structure of simply-connected algebraic surfaces" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 82 (5): 731–733. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1976-14136-5. MR 0413135.
Moishezon, Boris (1977). "Some estimates in the topology of simply-connected algebraic surfaces" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83 (4): 741–744. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14376-0. MR 0440567.
with Richard Mandelbaum: Mandelbaum, Richard; Moishezon, Boris (1980). "On the topology of simply-connected algebraic surfaces". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 260: 195–222. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1980-0570786-6. MR 0570786.
Moishezon, Boris; Teicher, Mina (1986). "Existence of simply connected algebraic surfaces of general type with positive and zero indices". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 83 (18): 6665–6666. Bibcode:1986PNAS...83.6665M. doi:10.1073/pnas.83.18.6665. PMC 386569. PMID 16593754.
Friedman, Robert; Moishezon, Boris; Morgan, John W. (1987). "On the C^∞ invariance of the canonical classes of certain algebraic surfaces". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 17: 283–286. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1987-15561-3. MR 0903733.

References

^ Saxon, Wolfgang (August 27, 1993). "Boris G. Moishezon, Columbia Professor Of Math, Dies at 55". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2011. Boris G. Moishezon, a mathematics professor at Columbia University who defected from the Soviet Union in 1972 and came to the United States five years later, died Wednesday. He was 55 and lived in Leonia, N.J. Dr. Moishezon had a heart attack while jogging and was pronounced dead in Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., said his wife, Natalia.