Felix Berezin

Felix Alexandrovich Berezin (Russian Феликс Александрович Березин, English transliteration Felix Alexandrovich Berezin, born April 25, 1931 in Moscow, † 14 July 1980 in Kolyma Region) was a Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist, father of the " Super mathematics ".

Berezin graduated from the Lomonosov University in Moscow and then taught for three years at schools in Moscow, as was initially denied because of his Jewish origins him a promotion. But the way he visited on the seminar of Israel Gelfand. After Khrushchev liberal times were come, he entered in 1956 in the mathematical faculty of Moscow State University, where he received his doctorate in 1957 Gelfand (Russian PhD ) and was a professor.

Berezin is a pioneer in the introduction of " supersymmetric methods in quantum field theory ( anticommuting Grassmann variables to represent Fermionfeldern in Wegintegralen ) and mathematics ( where appropriate integrals Berezin integrals are called ) are known.

Berezin was married and had a daughter. He drowned during a summer trip with a geological expedition in the region of Kolyma in Siberia, as they Seimchan the river, a tributary of the Kolyma sailed.