Semyon Belozyorov

Semyon Yefimovich Belozyorov (; 6 February 1904 — 1987) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and a specialist in the field of history of mathematics. Professor, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Director of Rostov State University in 1938–1954.

Biography Semyon Yefimovich Belozyorov was born on 6 February 1904. He studied at the Kulikovo village school in Kalachinsky District of Omsk Oblast. In his teens he worked as a shepherd in his home village. At the age of 18 he enrolled at Rabfak, and later graduated with honors from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Saratov State University and started to work there as teacher.

In 1938 he was appointed Director of Rostov State University and remained at this post in the most difficult years of the university. In 1939, under the leadership of Professor Mark Vygodsky he defended his thesis on the topic "From the history of the theory of functions of a complex variable". For many years he read a special lecture course "History and the modern theory of famous problems of antiquity" at Rostov State University.

He died in 1987.