Boris Gershevich Moishezon (October 26, 1937–August 25, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet mathematician. He left the Soviet Union in 1972 for Tel Aviv, and in 1977 moved to Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, where he was a professor of mathematics until his death sixteen years later. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983.

A resident of Leonia, New Jersey

Leonia, New Jersey

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, Moishezon died at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck, New Jersey

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 on August 25, 1993, due to a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 he suffered while jogging.

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