Ernest Vinberg

Ernest Borisovich Vinberg (Эрне́ст Бори́сович Ви́нберг; 26 July 1937 – 12 May 2020) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, who worked on Lie groups and algebraic groups, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, invariant theory, and representation theory. He introduced Vinberg's algorithm and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem.

He was a recipient of the 1997 Humboldt Prize. He was on the executive committee of the Moscow Mathematical Society. In 1983, he was an Invited Speaker with a talk on Discrete reflection groups in Lobachevsky spaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw. In 2010, he was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ernest Vinberg died from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 on 12 May 2020.

Selected publications

 * editor and co-author: (contains Construction of the exceptional simple Lie algebras)
 * with A. L. Onishchik: 2012 pbk edition
 * with V. V. Gorbatsevich, A. L. Onishchik:
 * (ed.) (contains: Vinberg et alia: Geometry of spaces of constant curvature, Discrete groups of motions of spaces of constant curvature)
 * with V. V. Gorbatsevich, A. L. Onishchik:
 * (ed.) (contains: Vinberg et alia: Geometry of spaces of constant curvature, Discrete groups of motions of spaces of constant curvature)
 * (ed.) (contains: Vinberg et alia: Geometry of spaces of constant curvature, Discrete groups of motions of spaces of constant curvature)