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Leonid Vaserstein grew up in the Soviet Union. In secondary school he won the second prize in the All-Russian High School Mathematical Olympiad. Vaserstein got his undergraduate, masters (1966), and doctoral degrees (1969) in mathematics from Moscow State University, where he worked as a lecturer
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focused on ways to develop industries in Russia with emphases on electrical engineering, energy efficiency, and environmental technologies like greenhouse gas mitigation. He started as a senior researcher for Informelectro and continued working there until 1978, eventually becoming head of his
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concurrently with his doctoral research. After his doctoral graduation he worked for the Moscow State University-associated "Informelectro" Institute, a
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department. In 1978 and 1979 he made his way to the United States of America by way of Europe, taking a series of visiting professor positions at the
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Vaserstein, Leonid N. (1969). "Markov processes over denumerable products of spaces describing large systems of automata".
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Vaserstein, L. N. (1988). "Normal subgroups of orthogonal groups over commutative rings".
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Vaserstein's research interests extend across the areas of
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Alternate forms of the last name: Vaseršteĭn, Vasershtein,
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A web page about Leonid N. Vaserstein's publications
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