Leonid Vaseršteĭn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leonid Vaseršteĭn

Russian-American mathematician

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1944

Place of Birth: Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia

Profession: mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Leonid Vaserštein is a Russian-American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University.
His research is focused on algebra and dynamical systems.
He is well known for providing a simple proof of the Quillen–Suslin theorem, a result in commutative algebra, first conjectured by Jean-Pierre Serre in 1955, and then proved by Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin in 1976. Vaserštein got his Master's degree and doctorate in Moscow State University, where he was until 1978.
He then moved to Europe and United States. The Wasserstein metric was named after him by R.L.
Dobrushin in 1970.