tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40490181052729211722024-02-19T10:06:08.691-05:00Avzel's journalTo succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered - Voltaire <br>
Слаб человек, и все ему можно простить, кроме хамства - Александр Блок <br>avzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08936752232469893943noreply@blogger.comBlogger672125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-3193783055361636192028-04-24T06:20:00.000-04:002019-04-14T17:10:37.491-04:00Life in Pictures
Thank you, Karen, for putting together this wonderful album! A couple of notes from Karen:
Feel free to forward this link to our pictures of Andrei. Because of the varying sizes, the best way to watch them is by clicking the "Slideshow" button from the first screen.
I uploaded these at the full quality I had. Anyone can download the best version of any picture by opening the picture, nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-55312998942354403462024-01-30T07:09:00.000-05:002024-01-30T07:11:46.876-05:0071Andrei would have been 71 today. nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-68891537605877454522023-04-10T16:22:00.000-04:002023-04-10T16:22:36.442-04:0010 years Andrei passed away 10 years ago today.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-86296942696561889592023-01-30T05:18:00.001-05:002023-01-30T05:18:00.211-05:0070Andrei would have turned 70 today.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-73557758963901914812022-01-30T10:17:00.000-05:002022-01-30T10:17:15.880-05:0069 Andrei would have been 69 today.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-91327593721254542302021-01-30T06:54:00.001-05:002021-01-30T06:54:15.574-05:0068 Andrei would have been 68 today.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-73414143760021837222020-01-30T09:26:00.000-05:002020-01-30T09:26:33.967-05:0067Andrei would have been 67 today.
nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-44658601386078786752019-01-30T00:01:00.000-05:002019-01-30T13:01:00.911-05:0066Andrei would have been 66 today.
nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-41259524671388385372018-01-30T05:18:00.000-05:002018-01-30T05:18:22.063-05:0065Today would have been Andrei's 65th birthday and the first one without Andrei's mom. They are both greatly missed.
nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-16484094258099055202017-11-13T23:47:00.000-05:002017-11-13T23:47:20.401-05:00Leroy P. Steele Prize
It has been announced that the 2018 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Discrete Mathematics/Logic will be awarded to Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky (posthumously) for their paper "Cluster algebras I: Foundations," published in 2002 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-81774532427836388402017-01-30T15:20:00.000-05:002017-01-30T16:09:33.269-05:0064Andrei would have been 64 today.
nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-6601422743161187342016-08-22T03:09:00.000-04:002016-08-22T16:46:41.304-04:00Advances memorial issueAdvances in Mathematics published an issue dedicated to Andrei. The opening article is an obituary written by some of Andrei's friends and colleagues.
As usual, we thank everyone who helped us make the text available to people lacking subscription.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-59099017439342537692016-01-30T18:51:00.001-05:002016-01-30T19:17:46.028-05:0063Andrei would have been 63 today.
Update: thank you all!
http://jurginas.livejournal.com/1328638.html
http://vitum.livejournal.com/268947.html
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Photo courtesy of Katya Z.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-5387157682685294472015-10-29T23:42:00.000-04:002015-10-30T17:09:28.916-04:00Andrei Zelevinsky Research Instructor FundNortheastern University has established a prestigious post-doctoral position named in Andrei's memory. Please spread the word.
Help us celebrate the legacy of a truly remarkable
teacher, mentor, and mathematician. Your gift to
the Andrei Zelevinsky Research Instructor Fund
honors his contributions to the mathematical
community, while investing in great mathematicians
of the future.
nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-79714135660367957272015-07-12T03:45:00.000-04:002015-07-12T03:45:42.250-04:00Boris Feigin's articleBoris Feigin has written a remarkable article about his lifelong friendship with Andrei. Thank you, Borya, for the beautiful tribute to Andrei's memory!
As it happens, the latest MMJ issue is dedicated to Borya's 60th birthday. Our (belated) congratulations! Many happy returns!
And thank you again, Sergei Yakovenko, for making the articles available to non-subscribers as well!nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-14057847068672412952015-05-06T23:47:00.000-04:002015-05-06T23:47:09.594-04:00Юноше, обдумывающему житьёTanya Khovanova posted a list of problems that Andrei had considered important for undergraduate students to think through and solve by themselves.
Problem 1. Let G be a finite group of order |G|. Let H be its subgroup, such that the index (G:H) is the smallest prime factor of |G|. Prove that H is a normal subgroup.
Problem 2. Consider a procedure: given a polygon in a plane, the next polygon nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-39793794395790148392015-01-30T15:51:00.000-05:002015-01-30T15:51:29.122-05:0062Andrei would have been 62 today.
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Photo courtesy of Katya Z.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-14763547211967080992014-04-10T06:22:00.000-04:002014-04-30T04:18:23.822-04:00Память рокового дняAndrei passed away one year ago today. He is missed dearly.
Update: thank you all for warm words and pictures!
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http://xaxam.livejournal.com/607262.html
http://vitum.livejournal.com/225432.html
http://jewgeniusz.livejournal.com/222682.html
http://xaxam.livejournal.com/614831.html
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Photo courtesy of Katya Z.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-12726074355632700632014-03-03T07:51:00.000-05:002014-03-23T17:41:14.562-04:00Transformation Groups ObituaryAndrei's obituary was published in the March 2014 issue of Transformation Groups (vol. 19, no. 1, 2014, pp. 289-302.) Subscription is required to get the full text :( A sizable fragment is available for viewing, though (click on ">> Look Inside".)
Update: Thank you, Sergei Yakovenko, for making the full text available!nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-54645613049415739412014-01-30T00:33:00.000-05:002014-01-30T00:33:59.958-05:0061Andrei would have been 61 today.
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Photo courtesy of Katya Z.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-17927373282965150182013-05-08T06:31:00.000-04:002013-05-08T06:31:41.219-04:00Calculus Lectures at People's UniversityAndrei Reznikov, one of the students at the Jewish People's University, posted the notes Andrei Zelevinsky had prepared for the calculus course he taught there in 1980-82.
The notes were xeroxed (a criminal offence according to the USSR legal standards) by Boris Kanevsky, who was later arrested and served a lengthy prison term on trumped-up charges.
Thank you, Andrei Reznikov, for saving the nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-67172068512278741252013-04-30T00:52:00.000-04:002013-04-30T00:56:33.485-04:00University Distinguished Professor
On April 18th 2013, at the university’s Academic Honors Convocation, Andrei was posthumously awarded the highest honor Northeastern can bestow upon a faculty member.
The photo (courtesy of Brooks Canaday/Northeastern University) shows Galya and Katya as well as Andrei's colleagues Profs. Valerio Toledano Laredo and Jonathan Weitsman talking with the Northeastern President Joseph E. Aounnieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-42319396955267838282013-04-24T06:19:00.000-04:002013-04-28T23:14:25.940-04:00ACRT ConferenceThe conference "Algebra, Combinatorics and Representation Theory": in memory of Andrei Zelevinsky (1953-2013) will be held on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston on April 24-28th.
The talks of speakers who agree will be streamed live here. Please spread the word about the talks' availability.
Update: The videos of the talks are now available for download.nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-14948372354365303832013-04-19T00:13:00.000-04:002013-04-19T12:23:44.803-04:00WikipediaOur heartfelt thanks to everyone who took part in filling Andrei's Wikipedia page with actual content!
Thank you, B.Y. and L.K. for your help and advice!
Thank you, Sergey Fomin, for collecting and organizing the information about Andrei's mathematical career!
And - first and foremost - thank you, Sasha Givental, for doing such an amazing job creating a real Andrei's page!nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049018105272921172.post-54088029830758156362013-04-17T00:19:00.000-04:002013-04-17T00:19:54.156-04:00Rabbi Hausman's Eulogy
ANDREI ZELEVINSKY
Avraham ben Zev
In the Book of Samuel, there is an interesting conversation between King David and a very wise woman. King David had exiled his son and the woman had been sent by Joab, the king's general, to plead with him to forgive his son. In the course of the wise woman's plea, she refers to the brevity of life, saying, "Ki mot namut u'kha-mayim hanigarim artza asher nieuwe_zijdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559395154355975976noreply@blogger.com1