Ernest Vinberg

Ernest Borisovich Vinberg (; 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. His ashes were interred in the columbarium at Vagankovo Cemetery.

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)