Gregory Freiman

Gregory Freiman was born in 1926 in Kazan

Freiman was born in Kazan on 3 July 1926.

He graduated from Moscow University in 1949. He earned his Candidate of Sciences at Kazan University in 1956, and his Doctor of Sciences in 1965 under Alexander Gelfond, Alexey Postnikov and Alexander Buchstab.

From 1956 he worked in Elabuga, and from 1967 in Vladimir and later in Kalinin, now Tver. In the 1970s and early 1980s he took part in the refusenik movement. His samizdat essay It Seems I Am a Jew described discrimination against Jewish mathematicians in the Soviet Union and was published in the US in 1980.

He was later forced to leave Russia because of his views and chose to move to Israel, leaving behind his wife, son and daughter. He became a professor at Tel Aviv University, later professor emeritus, and remarried. He died on 19 September 2024.