Georgy Voronoy was a Ukrainian mathematician, born on 28 April 1868 at Zhuravka in the Poltava province, who died in Warsaw on 20 November 1908. His name is sometimes written Georgii Voronoi, and he is best known for the Voronoi diagram, a partition of a plane into regions based on distance to a finite set of points. He was appointed professor of pure mathematics at Warsaw University in 1894. His doctoral thesis was on algorithms for continued fractions, and both his master's and doctoral theses won the Bunyakovsky prize of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He later worked on algebraic numbers and the geometry of numbers.
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He wrote his doctoral thesis on algorithms for continued fractions
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The Voronoi diagram is named after mathematician Georgy Voronoy
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The concept is named after Georgy Voronoy.
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