Person: Voronoy, Georgy Fedoseevich

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Georgy Voronoy was a Ukranian mathematician best known for the Voronoi diagram which is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to a finite set of points.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 28 April 1868, Zhuravka, Poltava guberniya, Russia (now Ukraine). Died 20 November 1908, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland).

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Origin Ukraine


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive