Boris Delaunay

Boris Nikolayevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Делоне́; 15 March 1890 – 17 July 1980) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, mountain climber, and the father of physicist, Nikolai Borisovich Delone.

Boris Delaunay
Born
Boris Nikolayevich Delaunay

(1890-03-15)15 March 1890
Died17 July 1980(1980-07-17) (aged 90)
Known forDelaunay triangulation, Mountain climbing
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorDmitry Grave
Georgy Voronoy
Doctoral studentsAleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
Nikolay Petrovich Dolbilin
Igor Shafarevich
Isaak Yaglom

The spelling Delone is a straightforward transliteration from Cyrillic he often used in later publications, while Delaunay is the French version he used in the early French and German publications.

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