Students from there later became distinguished mathematicians. In Moscow for young students who were denied entry into Moscow State. But he was also very ﬁrm with his principles: it took a lot of civilĬourage to teach in the early 1980s at underground so-called Jewish People’s UniversityĠ001-8708/© 2016 Elsevier Inc. His reaction to any stupid and undigniﬁe d act was a sort of surprise: humans just cannotīehave like this. Simplicity in mathematics and, at the same time, was open to fresh abstract ideas.Īndrei navigated the hardships of life in the former USSR with humor and dignity. As a true student of Gelfand’s school he highly valued the beauty of His own work was rather concrete and veryĬombinatorial. ﬁnding hidden and unexpected jewels and then proceeding with a beautiful and deep The Gelfand style of doing mathematics: a thorough study of multiple examples, Seminars, as well, including the seminar run by Alexandre A. Andrei attended the Gelfand Seminar, one of the pivotalĬenters for Moscow mathematics, for almost twenty years. Gelfand and, as Andrei wrote, this meeting became one of his Later had great inﬂuence on Andrei’s mathematics.

It was common for talented students from Moscow State to serve as mentors in leading Not always objective entrance examinations. USSR International Mathematical Olympiad team-Andrei won a silver medal for theĬompetition-he was directly granted university admission, bypassing cumbersome and

He graduated from this school in 1969 and entered the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. 2,Ī breeding ground for many famous mathematicians (one of his classmates was Borisįeigin, for example). This volume is dedicated to the memory of Andrei Zelevinsky (30 January 1953 –ġ0 April 2013), our colleague and our friend.Īndrei was born in Moscow and attended the celebrated mathematical school No. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect

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