Boris Moishezon

Boris Moishezon was born in 1937 in Odesa

Boris Moishezon was born in Odesa on October 26, 1937. He finished his studies at the state university in Dushanbe in 1959.

He completed a candidate of sciences thesis at the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow in 1962. From 1964 to 1967 he was a senior lecturer at the pedagogical institute in Orekhovo-Zuevo, while doing research in algebraic geometry under Igor Shafarevich. In 1967 he earned the higher doctor of sciences degree at Moscow University and won a prize from the Moscow Mathematical Society.

He then became a senior research fellow at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In the early 1970s he was a refusenik seeking the right to leave. In late 1972 he and his family were allowed to move to Israel, where he became a professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University.

In 1977 he was a visiting professor at the University of Utah and joined Columbia University as a professor of mathematics. He worked on algebraic geometry and number theory and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. He lived in Leonia, New Jersey, and died of a heart attack on August 25, 1993. He was buried on the Mount of Olives.