Vadim Yefremovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVadim Yefremovich
Russian mathematician
Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1903
Place of Birth: Zhmerynka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 01-May-1989
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Vadim Yefremovich
- Vadim Arsenyevich Yefremovich (or Efremovich) (Russian: ????´? ????´?????? ????´?????; 16 October 1903 – 1 May 1989) was a Soviet mathematician. Yefremovich was a member of the Moscow Topological School, and specialized in the geometric aspects of general topology.
- He introduced the notion of proximity spaces at the First International Topological Conference in Moscow in 1935.
- He was imprisoned from 1937 to 1944, and did not publish on proximity spaces until 1951, at which point the theory was developed rapidly by Efremovic and associates. Yefremovich also introduced the notion of "volume invariants" for "equimorphisms" (that is, uniformly bicontinuous) on metric spaces.
- These have proven to be very important in the study of manifolds and hyperbolic geometry.
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