# Life and Times of Georgy Voronoi

## TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Georgy Voronoi's life, highlighting his pioneering contributions to number theory, quadratic forms, and tessellations, and his role in founding the Geometry of Numbers.

## Contribution

It offers a detailed account of Voronoi's life, work, and legacy, emphasizing his foundational role in modern number theory and geometric methods.

## Key findings

- Voronoi's work significantly influenced number theory.
- He co-founded the Geometry of Numbers with Minkowski.
- His research introduced key concepts in quadratic forms and tessellations.

## Abstract

Georgy Theodosiyovych Voronoi (1868-1908) is famous for his seminal contributions to number theory,perhaps mostly those involving quadratic forms and Voronoi tessellations. He was born and grew up in the town of Zhuravka in the Ukraine, at the time part of the Russian Empire. Having studied at St. Petersburg University under the supervision of Andrey Markov, in 1894 he became a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In his career he published six large memoirs and six short papers, each of which were so profound and significant that they left a deep trace in modern number theory. Together with Minkowski, he can be considered as the founder of the Geometry of Numbers. In this contribution, a brief sketch will be given of his life, work and legacy.