NJIT - PublicInfo: Vladislav Goldberg, PhD

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Vladislav Goldberg, PhD

Vladislav Goldberg, PhD	Vladislav Goldberg, PhD, is a distinguished professor in the department of mathematical sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology who is renowned for his understanding of a little-known branch of geometry: web geometry. Only a small number of scholars study this field, although their expertise is frequently tapped by economists and physicists, especially those scientists studying thermodynamics. Web geometry focuses on the non-changing, or invariant, properties of a series of curved lines laid over a grid of horizontal and vertical lines. Goldberg and a small international group of other web mathematicians create the rules for studying or understanding web geometry. Economists and physicists use web geometry as a tool to prove their theories. Through the years, Goldberg has served many colleagues in other disciplines. His most memorable collaboration was in 2003 with Nobel Prize economists Paul A. Samuelson of MIT, Thomas Russell of University of Santa Clara and James B. Cooper of Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria. The trio challenged him to answer an unsolved problem. Goldberg accepted the challenge and in 2004 and again in 2006, he co-authored two breakthrough works refuting a 1938 assertion by Wilhelm Blaschke, a noted German mathematician credited with founding the field of web geometry. Since 1958, Goldberg has published four monographs, eight textbooks, three book chapters and more than 120 scientific papers. From 1964 to 1978, Goldberg was a professor in the department of mathematics at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. In 1979, after immigrating to the US, Goldberg worked at Lehigh University for two years as a visiting professor. In 1981, he joined NJIT as a full professor. In 1985, NJIT made Goldberg one of the university’s earliest distinguished professors. Goldberg was honored in May 2006 for a lifetime of scholarship. The International Geometry in Odessa Conference in Ukraine lauded the 70-year-old mathematician during a multi-day conference. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics from Moscow State University.

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