Valentina Borok

Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (Russian Валентина Михайловна Борок, Ukrainian Валентина Михайлівна Борок / Walentyna Mychailiwna Borok, Valentina Mikhailovna Borok English transcription; born July 9, 1931 in Kharkiv; † 4 February 2004 in Haifa) was a Soviet- Ukrainian mathematician.

Life

Borok was the daughter of the chemist Mikhail Borok and high official in the Economic Administration of Ukraine Bella Sigal, the ( both parents were Jewish) as a precaution resigned at the height of Stalinist persecution in 1937 from her post. Borok studied from 1949 Mathematics at the Kiev State University, where she also met her future husband, the mathematician Yakov Schitomirski, with whom she later worked together a lot. She was like her husband a student of Georgi Jewgenjewitsch Shilov, received his doctorate in Kiev with him in 1954, followed him to the Moscow State University, where she qualified as a professor in 1957 (Russian doctorate ). From 1960 she taught at the Kharkiv State University, where in 1970 she was awarded a full professorship in 1983 and presided until 1994, the Mathematics Department. Due to a serious illness in 1994 she put her teaching down and went for medical treatment to Israel.

Her daughter Svetlana Jitomirskaya and her son Michael Zhitomirskii are also mathematicians.