Mathematician:Leon Mirsky

Mathematician

Russian-born mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of number theory, linear algebra and combinatorics.

Nationality

British, Russian-born

History

• Born: 19 Dec 1918, Russia
• Died: 1 Dec 1983, Sheffield, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Mirsky's Theorem

Publications

• 1955: An Introduction to Linear Algebra
• 1971: A Dual of Dilworth's Decomposition Theorem (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 78, no. 8: pp. 876 – 877)  www.jstor.org/stable/2316481

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Leon Mirsky": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive